Posted on 04/21/2007 11:01:16 AM PDT by CheyennePress
A representative of Romanian President Traian Basescu gave a national medal in Israel on Friday to the family of a Romanian-born Virginia Tech professor who saved his students from a rampaging gunman Monday.
The presidential representative attended Liviu Librescu's funeral in Ra'anana on Friday and bestowed on his widow and children the Order of the Star of Romania for his bravery and his contributions to science, Israel Radio reported.
Librescu, an internationally respected aeronautics engineer and lecturer, was an engineering professor and Holocaust survivor who left Romania for Israel and then the United States.
Witnesses to Monday's shooting said Librescu blocked the door to his classroom with his body so students could escape the assailant by jumping out windows. The 76-year-old professor was shot to death in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history - which coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day - and became one of 32 victims of gunman Cho Seung-Hui.
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Well deserved and also shows how far Romania has progressed.
This man has stopped the hijack of the word, courage. He did that by being the very personification of the word, courage. May the good Doctor rest in peace.
*”Never Forget” was forgotten*
Enjoy your eternal reward good professor L.
This gentleman started his life by facing evil and he ended it facing evil, with courage, truth and dignity.
The poignancy of his death is impossible to miss. I’m glad he has received recognition from so many quarters. He deserves it.
Liviu Librescu is a true hero. I have repeated his life story and heroic act for my children to admire and hopefully learn from.
Too bad there were no US military veterans in those Virginia Tech classrooms. They would likely have been more proactive and not passive sheep led to slaughter.
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