Where do we find such men?

Don’t miss Seth Leibsohn’s short piece on Professor Liviu Librescu who was among those killed at Virginia Tech yesterday. Professor Librescu is also the subject of the Jerusalem Post article Scott linked to below.
Seth notes that Librescu, a holocaust survivor, sacrificed his life to save his students. He was shot while blocking the door to his classroom, while students jumped out the window. More than sixty years after his liberation, the rescued became the rescuer.
In a 1974 speech in which he introduced returning POW John McCain to the CPAC convention, Ronald Reagan asked where we find such men. He answered, “We [find] them in our streets, in the offices, the shops and the working places of our country and on the farms.” Professor Librescu’s heroism reminds us that we also find them among those who come to this country from other lands.
UPDATE: At NRO, a former student remembers Professor Librescu.

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