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From Auschwitz to Iraq
Honoring Those Who Sacrifice

BreakPoint with Charles Colson

January 28, 2005

In 1941, a monk named Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to take the place of another condemned prisoner at Auschwitz. Six decades later, a young man serving in Iraq—a soldier inspired by Father Kolbe—sacrificed his life when he volunteered to take the place of another soldier.

The story of this heroic young man—the son of a dear friend of ours in Prison Fellowship—is one we should tell our children as we mark the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz this week.

Twenty-year-old Thomas Doerflinger grew up in a home in which human dignity was vigorously defended. His father, Richard, is a bioethics expert who speaks out against abortion, cloning, and other assaults against human dignity. Some of those who knew the blond, blue-eyed Thomas questioned why this bright young man chose military service. His father says Thomas had no interest in a soft and easy life; he sought instead a life of deprivation and duty, service and sacrifice. And he wanted to help free the citizens of Iraq—people who’d spent decades living under tyranny and terror.

Years earlier, Thomas had offered a hint of his future plans. When he was confirmed into the Catholic Church, he took the name Maximilian Kolbe.

As Austin and Cathy Ruse write in the National Catholic Register, nobody takes Kolbe’s name lightly. “At a time in the world when courage mattered most, Kolbe did not hesitate,
01-28-2005 08:36 AM
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Inspiring story. Thanks for sharing. When I visited Auschwitz, I remember reading about Kolbe... I think that if the time came for one of us to give up our life for another's, we would be quick to hesitate.
01-28-2005 07:52 PM
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There is no comparison between Auschwitz and Iraq.

Saddam did not run death camps designed to systematically exterminate a people.

He haphazardly used poison gas in military actions against Kurdish civilians during the late 1980s (as Dick Cheney and other members of the Reagan administration largely turned a blind eye).
01-29-2005 11:14 AM
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Schad, I was, and am, against the Iraq war, too... But come on, this is not about moral justifications of war against Iraq and WW2... This is about a touching story. :rolleyes:
01-29-2005 12:47 PM
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Schadenfreude Wrote:There is no comparison between Auschwitz and Iraq.

Saddam did not run death camps designed to systematically exterminate a people.

He haphazardly used poison gas in military actions against Kurdish civilians during the late 1980s (as Dick Cheney and other members of the Reagan administration largely turned a blind eye).
No, but he did have roving death squads and mass graves. However, Saddam was like Stalin, not Hitler. He killed everybody who got in his way.
01-29-2005 09:37 PM
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Skipuno Wrote:
Schadenfreude Wrote:There is no comparison between Auschwitz and Iraq.

Saddam did not run death camps designed to systematically exterminate a people.

He haphazardly used poison gas in military actions against Kurdish civilians during the late 1980s (as Dick Cheney and other members of the Reagan administration largely turned a blind eye).
No, but he did have roving death squads and mass graves. However, Saddam was like Stalin, not Hitler. He killed everybody who got in his way.
Ummmm, so did Hitler.
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