Yes, we have lost a moral force
I extend my sympathies and deep condolences to the friends and family of Tom Lantos at his passing. I have, more than once, disagreed with a Lantos political position, especially as regards Iraq, but I never had less than the utmost respect for his thoughts and opinions and moral stances.
It is from my reading of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning that I came to grasp a great understanding of the breadth of emotions and self-doubts Holocaust survivors had to go through not just to survive the Nazis but to outlast their peers. I advocate everyone to read it, to fully appreciate men and women like Lantos, for carrying on the fight for what they perceived right for decades after being subjected to brutalities most of us can barely grasp within the widest stretches of our imaginations.
Tom Lantos was a very good man and his death is a loss to everyone who breathes.
