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There are now over 15,000 people who are alive because he saved those kids (offspring). The mofo is 104 years old.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-the-c...0-minutes/

I couldn't figure out how to get the cbs video to embed. I can handle youtube, but not cbs It is a 15 minute video and he is sharp for 104. Just wanted to share some good news.

A couple parts of the transcript.

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Winton had written President Roosevelt, asking the U.S. to take in more children. A minor official at the U.S. Embassy in London wrote back -- the U.S. was "unable" to help. Britain agreed to accept the children, but only if Winton found families willing to take them in. So he circulated the children's pictures to advertise them. But even after a family chose a child, British authorities were slow in issuing travel documents. So Winton started having them forged. He also spread some money around.

Nicholas Winton: Took a bit of blackmail on my part.

Bob Simon: You were indulging in blackmail and forgery to get the children out?

Nicholas Winton: I've never heard it put like that before.

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In 1939, Nicholas Winton used a two week vacation to go to Prague and ended up saving the lives of 669 children. In the decades since, of course, the children had children, who then had children and so on...and the numbers multiplied.

Bob Simon: If you wanna summarize it in one sentence: Guy takes a two week vacation...

Lady Milena: -- and ends up with 15,000 children?

Bob Simon: It's a pretty good story.

Lady Milena: It's a great story.

Nicholas Winton: They've got children and grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Bob Simon: And none of them would be here if it hadn't been for Sir Nick.

Nicholas Winton: That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Terrible responsibility, isn't it

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Good story!!