EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE

Malcom Lagauche

...Every once in a great while, human beings will stand up and react to situations in a manner which shows integrity well beyond what most humans could conceive, let alone perform. In my mind, two stand out. Let’s look at the most recent one first. Michael Berg’s son, Nicholas, was beheaded in Iraq. The perpetrators made available a videotape of the beheading with bogeyman al-Zarqawi supposedly cutting off Berg’s head. The outrage in the U.S. was at a fever pitch. When Michael was first interviewed about his son’s death, the warmongering administration assumed they had a propaganda coup that would carry on for months. They were wrong. Michael Berg quickly let it be known that he blamed his son’s death on the U.S. government...

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