They would have killed her eight children. And it was a measure of courage that I could not fathom then but now. as a father of two. it is beyond my comprehension to have that much courage. that much principle. to be able to risk your whole family for a stranger is something that I think is very difficult for us to comprehend. It is an easy kind of theoretical test. as we sit here with civil rights and civil liberties that we enjoy in this country. but the lesson for us is that each of us have a responsibility to speak out when there is torment. when there is murder. and not simply when it gets as large as Babi Yar or as the Holocaust. but when one person disappears in a Guatemalan village or if one Vietnamese family is sunk as they are off somewhere in Vietnam trying to get a refugee camp to freedom. anywhere on the globe. We should not wait till 5.000 Kurds are killed and then the Kuwaitis are invaded and taken and then Saddam Hussein again starts to kill the Kurds. before we figure out that it is wrong. that had the United States maybe spoken out when the first Kurds began dying. maybe we would not have had an invasion of Kuwait and then an additional massacre of the Kurds. Had the world spoken out at Kristallnacht or the taking of the Sudetenland. maybe Hitler would have been stopped.