HW 30: Symposium; Thursday

Today I attended a symposium at noon. The symposium that I went to on Thursday was about a very important man named Tom Lantos. He was a U.S. representative and holocause suvivor. This symposium in particular was extremely interesting to me. The very important part of this symposium was learning that Tom Lantos is the only person in the U.S. to have survived the holocaust and become a congressman. The main speaker for the event was his daughter Katrina Sweat, who introduced him. Being his daughter, she told us a lot of facts about his life. For example, she said that he came to the U.S. after the Second World War at 19. He started off with absolutley nothing and ended up with everything. His speech was very interesting because he has a very positive outlook and attitude on us Americans and on the world today. I enjoyed sitting through this symposium because he was very motivational and intelligent about it. For example, he states, “People whom we have done so much for forgot about all the positive things and are only remembering the negative things”. He believes in our country and with all that he went through it is nice to see that he still has so much respect for us and really values what matters most in his life. I thoroughly enjoyed it and him.