In response to our post about President Obama titled Who Is He? in which I suggested that it would help us to know who he is at his core if we knew who the people are whom he most admires, a reader wrote to ask who I would place on my own list.
Knowing that I risk omitting someone I shouldn't, and limiting the list to ten people from the last 100 years, and excluding anyone who is still alive (and my father), I came up with the following ten men and women:
Thomas A. Edison
Winston Churchill
Raoul Wallenberg
Oscar Schindler
Irene Sendler
Richard Wurmbrand
William F. Buckley
Ronald Reagan
Mother Teresa
Richard J. Neuhaus
I'm sure there are many others who deserve to be on such a list. Indeed, I would include many of those who died or suffered for their faith or in defense of our country. However, these ten come immediately to mind. I welcome suggestions from readers as to who else might be included in such company.
UPDATE: How could I have forgotten Mohandas Ghandi and Martin Luther King?