I found this on the internet today, can you imagine being twenty-five and doing something like this???

The German Defense Ministry issued a statement on Friday saying Boeselager had died on Thursday night. No cause of death was given.

Boeselager was just 25 when he and a group of other officers, led by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, attempted to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb at his "Wolf's Lair" headquarters in eastern Prussia on July 20, 1944.

Boeselager's opinion turned against the Nazi government in June 1942, after having received news that five Roma people had been shot in cold blood,
solely because of their ethnicity.

The bomb went off, killing four men, but the Fuehrer was shielded from the blast by a heavy oak table and only slightly injured. Stauffenberg and most of his co-conspirators were executed within days.

But despite brutal torturing by the Nazis, none of them revealed the role of Boeselager, who had provided the explosives used in the assassination attempt, and his participation in the plot remained secret until after the war.

He carried cyanide on him every single day until the war ended, convinced the Nazis would eventually find him out.

The plot to kill Hitler has become a famous symbol for German resistance to the Nazi regime, discussed in school lessons and honored in museums. A movie about the plot called "Valkyrie," and starring Tom Cruise as Stauffenberg, is due out later this year.

In a 2004 interview with Reuters, Boeselager said his sleep remained troubled, 60 years later, by dreams of the failed plot and visions of his fellow conspirators.

"If you are the only one among some 100 who is still alive, that makes you think. I feel they are watching me and I have a certain responsibility towards them," he said.

"Each day Hitler ruled, thousands died unnecessarily -- soldiers, because of his stupid leadership decisions. And later, I learned of concentration camps, where Jews, Poles, Russians -- human beings -- were being killed.

"It was clear that these orders came from the top: I realised I lived in a criminal state. It was horrible. We wanted to end the war and free the concentration camps."

After the war, Boeselager studied economics and became a forestry expert. He urged young people to get politically involved and feel responsible for their country.

The entrance to his residence in Kreuzberg bears the Latin motto "Et si omnes ego non — even if all, not I."

Now thats what I call a PATRIOT....

Zachary