Name a man or woman that you think deserves some praise, I'll start with a bit of a national hero, Raoul Wallenberg, it's the 100th anniversary of his birth this year.
Born into a really wealthy family it could have been easy for him to ignore what was happening around him, to turn a blind eye to the suffering of others, instead, he went to Budapest in Hungary during the darkest days of the WW2, were he worked for the Embassy, he demonstrated a sense of self-sacrifice to the greater good that one could only wish more people did. No one really knows what happend to him, all we know is that he was arrested by the Soviet Union when they entered Budapest and died while in captivity.
Surviviour, saved by Wallenberg
Per Almark, Swedish diplomat who worked with Wallenberg in Budapest and his story about what happend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOzOr-LVTk
- Righteous among the nations
Pretty neat video with obama from earlier this year
- Honary citizen of the USA 1981 (only Winston Churchill had been given that honor before Wallenberg)
- Congressional gold medal, 4 or 5 US senators + some congressmen came over here this summer to give it to his Sister.
Anyways, post some more!