(hat tip to Athenae at First Draft)

Please take a moment to remember Irene Sendler.
What she did the last time nations with the kind of economic and political power as ours chose to behave as filthily as ours saved the lives of countless children; she paid a terrible price for her kindness, as she was tortured upon capture by the German ’conquerors’ of Poland.

In this Feb. 21, 2008, file photo, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, left, speaks with Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, right, during a meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The family of Polish social worker Sendler, credited with rescuing 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Holocaust, says she has died. Sendler’s daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, says her 98-year-old mother died Monday, May 12, 2008, morning in a Warsaw hospital. Sendler organized the rescue of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany’s brutal World War II occupation. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

May the world be kinder to today’s Iraqi and Afghani social workers, saving as many souls as they can from the sheer hellishness the US invasion unleashed upon, and in, those nations. As this news story outlines, she was tortured for what she did for the children, but Zegota was able to bribe officials to prevent her from being killed outright.

On a day when the Myanmar death toll from the May 3 cyclone and the earthquake in China today mount beyond thousandfolds, it seems remarkably silly to go on invoking doom over a poltical campaign.

So please, stop with me a minute.
Remember this beautiful lady and the lives she saved.

Remember the power of Mother Nature and the lives lost to the flexing of her muscles across the globe.