Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
Memorial Day this year was especially somber, as it should be. A new generation of names is sadly being added to the roll call on a daily basis. The reminders that liberty comes at a cost are stark and uncompromising, and all too frequent thanks to the war on terror. I had the honor of riding a float with American […]
Read moreSwampscott Officer Ready for Deployment to Baghdad Bette Keva Jewish Journal Staff Lately, when Michael Finer walks to KFC in Vinnin Square for lunch, just a few yards from his firm, he’s thinking about the marching he’ll be doing with a weighted down rucksack on his back while wearing heavy boots and dodging suicide bombers in the besieged city of […]
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Two National Guard divisions, the 42nd and the 45th, liberated Dachau in April of 1945. LTG H. Steven Blum, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, visited the Dachau Camp Memorial as he headed to a trip through Germany and the Balkans supporting the State Partnership Program. It’s the Chief’s belief that the State Partnership Program can help fulfill […]
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When forty people show up at your Passover Seder (literally Order), it is anything but orderly. But it is a blessing – especially when you are fighting a war in Iraq where duty schedules are heavy and Jews are not only scarce but also scattered across what we in the military dub the ITO – or Iraqi Theater of Operations. […]
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