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Nobel Peace Prize Candidate Sir Nicholas Winton

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There have been recent complaints that the Peace Prize has become too 'political'...

I can't help but agree...
In fact I'm more than a bit disappointed.
 
Re: Nobel Peace Prize Candidate Sir Nicholas Winto

WhatsThatNoise said:
There have been recent complaints that the Peace Prize has become too 'political'...

I can't help but agree...
In fact I'm more than a bit disappointed.
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NO!!!! Yah think???? Must stop now before I break my own rules - that and toss my keyboard out the window onto the SNOW COVERED front lawn. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wall.gif
 
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Another story about him in more detail...

https://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:gx5...lient=firefox-a

This is the part that really floors me...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]After the war, Nicholas Winton didn't tell anyone, not even his wife Grete about his wartime rescue efforts. In 1988, a half century later, Grete found a scrapbook from 1939 in their attic, with all the children's photos, a complete list of names, a few letters from parents of the children to Winton and other documents. She finally learned the whole story. Today the scrapbooks and other papers are held at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, in Israel.[/QUOTE]

Oh yea dear....I saved 669 children from the Nazis about 50 years ago...What's for breakfast?
 
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WhatsThatNoise said:
Another story about him in more detail...

https://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:gx5...lient=firefox-a

This is the part that really floors me...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]After the war, Nicholas Winton didn't tell anyone, not even his wife Grete about his wartime rescue efforts. In 1988, a half century later, Grete found a scrapbook from 1939 in their attic, with all the children's photos, a complete list of names, a few letters from parents of the children to Winton and other documents. She finally learned the whole story. Today the scrapbooks and other papers are held at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, in Israel.
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Oh yea dear....I saved 669 children from the Nazis about 50 years ago...What's for breakfast? [/QUOTE]

The two most profound experiences of my youth were visiting the former camp at Dachau and also visiting Ann Frank's home in Amsterdam when I was 12 or 13. This man is the kind of story for which the prize was originally intended.
 
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I wish that kids,teenagers,& young adults would learn
about unselfish people like this.I would hope that it would
sink in to a least a few of them.
After reading that,kinda humbles you,doesn't it?

- Doug
 
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We ALL have our ~ways~.

At some point in time we make decisions... mostly personal ones. Those decisions will impact us in ways we will either see, imagine, or won't consider.


To quote a clever human: "The Play's the Thing."

...welcome to a small planet orbiting a minor star, at a place where things are "cool" in a galaxy with a common enough center. A very "heavy" one.

Seems as if we're all in a similar boat. Known and unknown. Linear time has it's limits.

"Turn left at Ganymede!!!"
 
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Truly an unsung hero, whos' time has come for a song!!! (Of course, somewhere along the line he WAS knighted for doing SOMETHING!!) /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 
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I WANT to hear about people like this but I don't

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.[/QUOTE]
Anne Frank
 
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WhatsThatNoise said:
I WANT to hear about people like this but I don't

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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Anne Frank

[/QUOTE]

Too many of the people our current culture holds up as heros are anything but.
 
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I think one of the "heaviest" experiences of my early years was when I worked for Social Security in Chicago in the 1970s.

A gentleman comes in to file for age 65 Medicare. I asked him for identification and proof of age. Says all his papers were destroyed in WW2, and showed me his 1968 driver's license. I said "Do you have any form of identification made earlier?"

He rolled up his sleeve and showed me the number tattooed on his arm.

I still tear up at that.

T.
 
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In the time it took me to read all the postings on this subject, there were about ten postings on various other subjects of interest. That's a tremendous amount of activity within a group of people that are adapt at solving complex problems, people of common connected interest, some of considerable means and some of moderate means, but all of us are aware of some of the deplorable conditions around the world and have the desire to do something about it. We are also certain that it is unlikely that any solution is likely to come out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave or 10 Downing Street, etc. How about a thread to start a non political discussion of only positive ideas to find solutions to one important issue. My opinion, is we have the ability to do this and to make a difference. What do you think?
 
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Basil said:
Too many of the people our current culture holds up as heros are anything but.
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You mean Michael Vick isn't a hero? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif
 
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/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gifYou DOG! You!!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
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equiprx said:
In the time it took me to read all the postings on this subject, there were about ten postings on various other subjects of interest. That's a tremendous amount of activity within a group of people that are adapt at solving complex problems, people of common connected interest, some of considerable means and some of moderate means, but all of us are aware of some of the deplorable conditions around the world and have the desire to do something about it. We are also certain that it is unlikely that any solution is likely to come out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave or 10 Downing Street, etc. How about a thread to start a non political discussion of only positive ideas to find solutions to one important issue. My opinion, is we have the ability to do this and to make a difference. What do you think?
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I don't think it would be possible because I would almost certainly drift into politics - or at least ideology (which half of you would NOT agree with). PS - I started to say more about five different time, sbut found I was getting political, so I'll just shut up now.

Basil
 
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I went there myself Basil, but just couldn't post anything!! Noble sentiment though...maybe another venue!!
 
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Basil said:
(which half of you would NOT agree with).
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Which half? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
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DrEntropy said:
Basil said:
(which half of you would NOT agree with).
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Which half? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
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The half that isn't nuts like me.
 
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