tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779390.post4677510019616963859..comments2023-11-02T06:44:26.914-04:00Comments on Yusef's Journal: Today I will remembe Irena SendlerSTAGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06198646624631167489noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779390.post-64547027832835051612012-10-15T22:28:14.855-04:002012-10-15T22:28:14.855-04:00It doesnt take a big guy to be a hero, or a rich o...It doesnt take a big guy to be a hero, or a rich one. All it really takes is a realization that there is a difference between "right and wrong", and be prepared to do the right thing even if there is some risk. <br /> To fail to do the right thing even when there is zero risk is just deplorable. <br /> It risks nothing to stop and buy an extra hot dog at the kiosk outside the train station, and share your meal with a homeless guy. It costs even less to drop into a nursing home or a soup kitchen and ask if you can do something to help. <br /> But this woman...saw evil. And did something about it. Not as much as she would have liked, nor enough to stop it cold in its tracks. But something pretty significant IMHO. <br /> When some bozo starts sounding off about "foreigners taking our jobs" or as Pierre Polievre (my local MP no less!) was caught by me soliciting signatures on a petition to limit the lawful appeals by "foreign crimminals", this is just wrong....wrong enough to bear the stench of evil. Sorry Pierre, if a judge allows an appeal, there may well be a valid reason for it, and they are entitled to the benefit of the law.<br /> I know it is trite to say "for evil to flourish, all it takes is for good men to do nothing", but it is still perfectly valid. <br /> Now go and give blood, or help an old lady across the street, or smuggle a baby. Its all gold in heaven.<br /> STAGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06198646624631167489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779390.post-88982844464173460392012-10-08T13:50:10.622-04:002012-10-08T13:50:10.622-04:00What a truly remarkable woman. I can't imagine...What a truly remarkable woman. I can't imagine what it must have been like in those dark days, or the torment this tiny woman prevented. I would like to hope that there is at least one person out in the world that she saved who went on to do more things that changed the world for the better...<br /><br />In remembering her here I can think would've meant as much to her as the Nobel Prize~~she obviously wasn't in this for the glory! By keeping her name and her deeds alive she is immortalized. Thank you for the posting!<br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving!!!coastalcutie2000https://www.blogger.com/profile/03117290642638325853noreply@blogger.com