Irena Sendler, 15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008, Poland

[a777pilot]

Missed the anniversary of her death by a week. How quickly we forget. Sad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler



p.s., You might be interested to she who this saint of a person lost out to for the Peace Prize. Then, again, maybe not.

[Conley]

Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska, AKA in Poland Irena Sendlerowa, Nom de guerre Jolanta; 15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008)[1] was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota[2][3] resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. Assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members, Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and with housing outside the Ghetto, thereby saving those children from being killed in the Holocaust.[4]

The Nazis eventually discovered her activities, tortured her, and sentenced her to death; but she managed to evade execution and survive the war. Late in life she was awarded Poland's highest honor for her wartime humanitarian efforts and also was nominated for (but did not win) the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.[5] She appears on a silver 2009 Polish commemorative coin honoring some of the Holocaust-resisters of Poland.

An amazing and inspiring woman, no doubt about it. I think the recent record of the Nobel Peace Prize, as sad as it is, speaks for itself.

[MMC]

Missed the anniversary of her death by a week. How quickly we forget. Sad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler



p.s., You might be interested to she who this saint of a person lost out to for the Peace Prize. Then, again, maybe not.

Mind if I take a stab at it......let me guess, she lost to the most powerful man in the World who gave a good speech on Peace as he was Dropping a Bomb on Somebody.


How'd I do?

[a777pilot]

algore

[Conley]

Arafat, Al Gore, Barack Obama...makes not a bit of sense.

[a777pilot]

That a good video if you turn the sound off.

Death from above. Love Air Power.

[MMC]

Yes.....the Video is great. We also have it up in the Vets thread under Tributes or Gung-ho. Which we do have some others with different kinds of Music. Although I like all Kinds of Music. So that part doesnt really bother me. Not to mention the Words fit.