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Post by Maggie on May 3, 2014 20:44:37 GMT -6
I have never heard of this man before nor had I heard his story. But it is wonderful. His story: Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn't know what he'd done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died. (This is one of ten stories recounted on listverse all of which are worth reading. I thank God for such men and for the witness they bear to human courage and decency.
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Post by Maggie on May 3, 2014 21:35:12 GMT -6
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Here is a modern day Antigone. Her story is told on the blog Mrs. Daffodil digressesThis woman, Elisabeth Thorn, played several roles at the Battle of Gettysburg. But, as the blogger tells it, the most moving was overlooked in her obituaries: Her obituaries say merely that she witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg. Occasionally they mention that she assisted the General, or that she was Superintendent of the Cemetery in her husband’s absence. The papers are silent on her condition (she was pregnant). They did not report how she did her duty in the aftermath of the battle. Working almost entirely without help, in the heat and storms of that July, among the rotting corpses of men and horses, she dug graves in the rocky soil and buried over one hundred soldiers. She did more than her duty. She glorified God in the most fundamental way by treating the dead honorably and giving them a decent burial just as their humanity demanded. It is rarely possible to bury the casualties of war-- maybe that is why wars, even the most "just" are so unrelentingly ugly. They violate the God-given dignity of all men and lay bare to our eyes the price of our sins. With Memorial Day approaching, finding this story seems amazingly appropriate.
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