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Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 6:48pm

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The best instructor you can ask for is the one who demands your best.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 7:05pm

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The Orthodox Jewish community of Borough Park, Brooklyn, a community to which he was personally unknown, celebrated the courage and life of Liviu Librescu in a mass public funeral attended by thousands this Wednesday, shortly after President Bush eulogized him.

From an excellent article in the New York Sun:

Another Boro Park resident, Sara Tamber, choked back tears outside the funeral chapel. "The way this man finished his life � he's a really big tzadek," she said, using the Hebrew word for a righteous person."

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Friday, April 20, 2007 - 2:33am

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I may take some flak over what I'm about to say next, but here goes:

Considering that we probably all have to die at some point in our lives, I think that to die as Liviu Librescu did -- on his feet, fighting like hell to protect his kindred from an undeserved death -- is a hell of a lot better than to die alone in some stale and sterile nursing home or ICU, with tubes all up in him like a broken prison bitch.

As Frank Miller wrote in his classic graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns, "This would be a good death... but not good enough". Now all that's missing for Librescu is a fiery viking funeral, and it would be a very good death indeed.

(Edited by Jeremy M. LeRay on 4/20, 2:38am)

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Friday, April 20, 2007 - 1:05pm

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Yes, a burning boat, floating downstream to Wagner's "Siegfried's Funeral March," would have been impressive. But don't you think having the entire community of Borough Park turning out to celebrate him, (and many more from all around the New York area) with vans going through the streets with loudspeakers, calling out in English and Yiddish for people to "pay tribute to the hero," and being eulogized by the President was a pretty good substitute?

"May the Name of Liviu Librescu go on forever, as long as the Sun;
May Men bless themselves by blessing his Name,"

- John Pohoretz, NY Post, 4/20, paraphrasing Psalms.

Ted Keer