Speaker. we are honoring a hero in an age which is so profoundly devoid of heroes. a man who voluntarily assumed a daring and dangerous assignment. Many become heroes when heroism is thrust upon them. But Wallenberg went out of his way. leaving behind the comfort and affluence. the safety and security of Stockholm to go to Budapest. During that whole dark nightmare. no one else so directly and so successfully confronted Nazi cruelty. No one else had the audacity to follow the death marches. to jump in front of guns leveled at Jews. to pull people off deportation trains. Raoul Wallenberg not only saved 100.000 lives. he saved our faith in humanity. In history. one can find many men who have killed 100.000 people.
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