Courage

when i first glimpsed at this headline to be honest my eyes rolled and thought 'how did they spin the holocaust into the shootings' but this guy had some guts he survives fascism, communism ...only to die on a college campus in Virginia it also illustrates i think that younger people are cuddled and taught to be passive sheep:

Holocaust-survivor professor eulogized as hero for saving students from gunman
BY VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press
LA Daily News

NEW YORK - A Holocaust survivor who escaped the Nazi killings to become a world-class scientist was remembered Wednesday as a hero for saving his Virginia Tech students from a rampaging gunman.

Witnesses said Liviu Librescu blocked the door to his classroom with his body so students could escape the assailant by jumping out windows. The 76-year-old professor was shot to death, one of 32 victims of Cho Seung-Hui.

"He gave his life for his students," Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind told mourners at a Brooklyn funeral home. "It is the ultimate sacrifice, and the ultimate goodness, after all that he went through in his life."

The neighborhood's Jewish community volunteered to hold the service before Librescu's remains were flown to Israel for burial.

The professor's wife, Marlena Librescu, arrived with Israeli consular officials. She was greeted with bear hugs from strangers who praised her husband's bravery.

Although she was initially composed, she broke down as someone handed her her husband's gold wedding band - 42 years after their marriage.

"He saved them. He saved them," she said quietly of her husband's students as she slipped the band on her finger, next to her own.

Librescu had been an internationally respected aeronautics engineer and lecturer for 20 years. After Monday's shooting, his students sent e-mails to his family recounting his actions in the classroom.

"He was a very human person," his wife said after the service. "He wanted to help everybody."

When his native Romania joined forces with Nazi Germany in World War II, Librescu was imprisoned in a labor camp, and then sent along with his family and thousands of other Jews to a ghetto in the city of Focsani. Hundreds of thousands of Romanian Jews were killed during the war.

After the war, Librescu found work at a government aerospace company. But his career was stymied in the 1970s because he refused to swear allegiance to the communist regime. He was later fired when he requested permission to move to Israel, according to his son, Joe Librescu, who spoke by telephone from his home near Tel Aviv.

In 1977, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened to get the family an immigration permit, the son said.

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As Michelle Malkin alluded to:
There's no polite way or time to say it: American colleges and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions—while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

Instead of teaching students to defend their beliefs, American educators shield them from vigorous intellectual debate. Instead of encouraging autonomy, our higher institutions of learning stoke passivity and conflict-avoidance.

And as the erosion of intellectual self-defense goes, so goes the erosion of physical self-defense.

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To which I add, with the erosion of physical self defense, so goes society.