Just Imagine seeing what “Tom Lantos” Lived Through

History is passed on in most cases through a secondary source. In most cases one can only imagine, what it is like to have a primary source on significant political and historical events. Mr. Lantos was just that, he lived through the worst time imaginable for the Jewish people. When people talk about the “Holocaust” it angers and stirs the Jewish people’s emotions, just like talking about that of “Slavery” for African Americans. Many African American people of today however didn’t have a primary source of information into the many atrocities that “white men” committed on the “Black American Slave”. This was not the case for the Jewish people however; Many Jewish communities were very social and close knit group. Imagine Mr. Lantos telling his stories of everyday life in a “Nazi Concentration Camp.” Try to imagine his personal thoughts about “Adolph Hitler”, who again he experienced for himself first hand! Imagine the loss of love ones he had to experience and endure! Imagine for a moment escaping with your life, when you personally know so many who were not so fortunate to do so. Imagine being freed, only to come to America as a lonely Immigrant in a very strange place during a great depression! How would you respond? Would you become bitter? Would you just live in self-pity until you die? Would you become a murderous minus to society? Would you become a drunkard or a drug user? Not many would have had the strength, courage and heart to do what “Mr. Tom Lantos” did. He became proactive in pioneering the plight of human rights! He did not just become reactive to his desperate circumstances! What Mr. Lantos did politically, for human rights in this country: It is an incumbent charge to all of us as Americans. We need to stand up for our rights and for the rights of the less fortunate, also. Mr. Lantos lived a life of positive, passionate and political influence: What kind of life will “Generation X” live? If you are Young it is your time, you future; "so take hold of your chance to influence it.”