Congressman Tom Lantos has passed away. He had recently announced he would not seek re-electiob because of the cancer that now taken his life. At the time of his announcment he said this which truly impressed me:
“It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received an education, raised a family, and had the privilege of serving the last three decades of his life as a Member of Congress. I will never be able to express fully my profoundly felt gratitude to this great country. “
