HW31: Citizenship Symposium

On Thursday, November 9th 2007, I attended the Citizenship Symposium. It was called, “Citizenship & Responsibility”. Here, the United States Representative & Holocaust Survivor Tom Lantos spoke, as did his daughter Katrina Sweat. Katrina was the first to speak. She told us that her father is the only Holocaust Survivor to serve in the United States Congress, and that he is also the Chairman of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee since 2006. Next, Tom Lantos spoke to us. He moved to the United States when he was 19 years old. He then attended University of Washington, Seattle. He talked about meeting the New President of France, and hearing his speech on the US-Europe relations. He quoted the New President of France, “America did not teach men the idea of freedom, she taught them how to practice it.” I thought it was a very smart quote, and it made a lot of sense to me. I thought it was genius.