A Story Worth Sharing

I just got home from a fun day at the zoo with Madelyn, Jonathan, Natalie & JulieAnna. It was a nice cool morning so the animals were super-active and so fun to watch. And for the giant pregnant lady, it was nice to not be sweaty all day long too!
So, I just got Maddy down for her nap and checked my email. This little story was waiting for me (something my aunt forwarded along that I actually decided to read). It's a story that just made me think "we all need to know about this woman and be inspired by her". So, here you go:

Irena Sendler
Nobel Prize Loser
The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' .. She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids.) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, ar ms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most of course had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected.
* Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

(Now, I personally really appreciated Gore's passion and educational global warming info. So, this is not a slam on that from my personal opinion. But...it interesting to ponder, none-the-less)

Hope all of you out there are having a great last week of August. Can you believe September is practically here?! Crazy.