tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post1830131037256848610..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: A Memorable Evening with General Bela Kiralyed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-22914435206222219372010-03-06T16:40:54.837-05:002010-03-06T16:40:54.837-05:00I may add some thoughts as I have read his two bio...I may add some thoughts as I have read his two biograpgies, one titled "Erre nincs ige"<br /><br />I have discovered him after searching for literature on the unique statesman Ferenc Deak.<br /><br />As Kiraly wrote a study on Deak, I continued the discovery of Kiraly.<br /><br />He seems to be a gifted, moral, intellectual and always modest person.<br /><br />What is great in him? He saved Budapest from chaos and blood bath in October 1956. How can an officer restore security to a large city in only 3 days? It was one of the greatest military achievements probably in history.<br /><br />His scholarship was also exceptional. A modest detective of bad times, and an unprejudiced historian in Kiraly could be the basis of a violence free Hungary.<br /><br />Hungarian leaders can not follow such noble views, and remain still priests of violence.<br /><br />Kiraly, and statesman Deak showed the road to decency.<br /><br />All of us should follow their violence free concepts.Steven Fodornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-16732519748751832992009-07-09T07:57:06.912-04:002009-07-09T07:57:06.912-04:00Thanks David for the comment. I wish I had a video...Thanks David for the comment. I wish I had a video camera that night. He said some amazing stuff, including things about Vietnam that were shocking. If I were smart I would have gone back to Budapest and spend a day with him and a camera. It would have made a wonderful film.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-33288630432415887772009-07-09T07:35:41.062-04:002009-07-09T07:35:41.062-04:00_________________________________
WHERE HAVE ALL ..._________________________________<br /><br />WHERE HAVE ALL THE SUMMERS GONE<br /><br />_________________________________<br /><br />Norm:<br /><br />Your story about knowing, studying with and then remeeting Bela Kiraly so many decades later is one of the MOST affecting pieces that has ever appeared on Ed Notes.<br /><br />How beautifully and touchingly you conveyed your relationship with this great man and Twentieth century Icon for Democracy and War Hero.<br /><br />Bela Kiraly comes from a long line of bigger than life heroes I no longer see in this world.<br /><br />I also could speak of some of the great Heroes I was privileged to study under and know well, on an intimate basis over the past decades. But those stories should be reserved for another time and place.<br /><br />For the immediate "now" Bela Kiraly, courageous General, Humanitarian, member of the "Righteous Among Nations" at Yad Vashem, and Friend to you and so many tens of thousands of others for almost a full Century- this is the time to honor and remember this remarkable Human Being.<br /><br />I envy your having known this Man. Would that I and all your readers might also have been so fortunate.<br /><br />Perhaps part of why you are who you are is due and thanks to having been so blessed to have spent time in his very Special company.<br /><br />May you carry on in your own life the values he so deeply instilled in you, Norm. And may he now Rest in Peace with the Angels forever.<br />________________________________DAVID PAKTERnoreply@blogger.com