Activists are replacing “heroes” in a politically correct era.
True life heroes of the past actually put their lives and freedom at risk.
As an employee of the Social Welfare Department, Irena carried a special permit to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to check for signs of a typhus outbreak the Nazis were trying to control. She used this cover to smuggle out babies and little children in ambulances and trams--even cleverly disguising them as packages.
Replacing real life heroism with politically correct icons may have started with Irena Sendler, a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, who is credited with saving 2,500 Jews from the Holocaust--and Al Gore.
