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...Grove's life, he said, was a series of similar choices...
...Grove was a student in Hungary in 1956 when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest and chaos ensued. His first real choice was whether to leave for America...
...didn't know what was happening one block away from you," Grove said. "You would hear about people getting shot, people getting tortured and killed. I fantasized about leaving but never did--I just stayed in my apartment...
...until his relative burst into his door, panting about students down the street being rounded up by the Red Army, that Grove knew he had to make an immediate decision...
...faced unknown dangers if I left, I faced known dangers if I stayed," Grove said of the experience. "When I realized that it was riskier to stay because of the downside, I started on my journey...