Saturday, November 10, 2007

Hw. 30 2nd Syposium

The symposium on Tom Lantos U.S representative and holocaust survivor was very interesting to me. The holocaust itself is a topic that I am very fascinated with, and for him to be the only person in the U.S to have survived the holocaust and become a congressman it’s amazing. The symposium started with Tom Lantos’s daughter Katrina Sweat introducing him. She told us that tom came to the U.S after the Second World War at 19 with absolutely nothing. He ran for congress in 1980. In 2006 he became the head chair member of the foreign committee. When Tom came out he talked firmly about freedom in America and how they wanted to begin a whole new era of U.S relations. He is a firm believer in our country and has high hopes that the people who are running it will continue to make us proud. One of the quotes he stated that really caught my eye was “people whom we have done so much for forgot about all the positive things and are only remembering the negative things”.

1 comment:

Tracy Mendham said...

Well done.
Usually Holocaust is capitalized, when referring the Holocaust associated with World War II.