A United States Congressman is attempting to make Miss Frank the seventh honorary citizen in the history of the United States, according to an article in today's New York Times.
Rep. Steve Israel notes that Otto Frank, Miss Frank's father, was trying desperately to get his family to the United States:
"The best way we can honor Anne Frank in death is to give her what her father sought for her in life," the congressman said. Seventeen House members from both parties have signed on as co-sponsors. It would make Anne Frank only the seventh person to be granted honorary citizenship in the history of the country. The others are Winston S. Churchill; the Marquis de Lafayette; Mother Teresa; the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who worked to save Jews in World War II; William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania; and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn.
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Wow. They're a little late, aren't they? What would be the point of that? Besides the fact that they are really dead and won't care, what about the other victims of the Holocaust? Are you going to make all of them "honorary U.S. citizens", too?
No disrespect, I know it was horrible and--well, actually, I don't. And I'm grateful that I don't know, but really. Anne Frank was not really any different than any other person that died in the Holocaust, she just happened to have her diary published.
Of all the things we could be doing...and we're making dead people citizens. Forget all of the "illegal immigrants" that have been working hard and need citizenship NOW, let's give it to famous dead people.
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