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I hope Al Gore is hanging his head
Telegraph of London ^ | 5-13-2008 | Daniel Hannan

Posted on 05/16/2008 10:12:46 PM PDT by Entrepreneur

I am ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Irena Sendler, whose obituary appeared in this morning’s paper. Hers is an awesomely humbling story, even by the standards of her heroic generation.

A Polish Catholic, she spirited some 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto, displaying casual and extraordinary courage. She kept a list of the children she had saved, hoping one day to reunite them with their parents – although, in the event, almost all lost their families in Treblinka. In 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured. Her legs and feet were broken, but she refused to give up her list. She was sentenced to death, but rescued, whereupon – almost unbelievably – she went back to work.

Here, though, is the sentence that leapt off the page at me: “Last year she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, eventually won by Al Gore.” Al Gore!...

...making a film is not the same thing as donning a yellow star and smuggling babies past enemy soldiers...

..."I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little. I could have done more. This regret will follow me to my death.” There is a haunting sincerity to that statement. You can’t imagine Al Gore saying any such thing, can you?

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; globalwarming; irenasendler; nobel; nobelpeaceprize; nobelprize; sendler
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To: mkjessup
Professor Gore actually discovered the suboccipital muscles of the neck, therefore providing him with the knowledge needed to keep that area taut and conditioned, thereby avoiding any need to hang his head, nearly filled to overflowing with all of his superior brainpower.

LOL. So true.

41 posted on 05/17/2008 11:58:21 AM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: texas booster

That was great. Truly an amazing and inspiring story, not only about Irena, but the students, the businessman who raised the money to send them to Poland, well, all involved. Simply wonderful.


42 posted on 05/17/2008 12:02:46 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: Auntie Mame
At www.irenasandler.com they have a few pictures of the children she saved, all grown up and full of life.

I guess that she pretty much signifies agape love.

43 posted on 05/17/2008 12:06:21 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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