Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
I get this question a lot, and not just from JIG readers. While I’m a little biased to the Few and the Proud, even I can admit that there are different benefits and downsides to serving in each of the different branches. Well the folks over at About.com put together a decent guide to choosing a service to enlist in. […]
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Private First Class Steven F. Shapiro, a 29-year-old soldier from the small Lake County town of Hidden Valley died in Talil, Iraq this past week on October 21. Private First Class Steven F. Shapiro, 29 entered active-duty service in March 2010 as an M1 Armor Crewman. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Advise and Assist Brigade, […]
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Melvin Rosen, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, recently passed in Falls Church, Va. His story told in his own words, from a US-Japan WWII dialog site : Arriving in the Philippines I was graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1940. My parents were poor immigrants from Russia. I was extremely proud to be […]
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By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: April 29, 2007 Robert Rosenthal, a highly decorated pilot in World War II who helped usher in a new kind of warfare, the strategic bombing of Germany, in which huge bombers scraped the ice-cold stratosphere while serving as easy targets for enemy fighters and ground guns, died on April 20 in White Plains. He was 89. […]
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From the Annapolis newspaper… Retired Army Col. Harry Lindauer, [z”l] had a favorite expression: “A new Pharaoh arose who knew not Joseph.” What he meant by that, his wife Thea explained, is that a man can be honored for many things, but as generations follow generations eventually the man is forgotten. But a man who lived a life like Col. […]
Read moreBy Dr. Alex Grobman, author of Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944-1948. The American Jewish Historical Society’s exhibit “Particular Responsibility: The Making of the U.S. Army Talmud,” has brought a very important part of the history of the Jews in post-war Europe to the attention of the public. The chapter they cover, however, […]
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Story and photos by Tech. Sgt. Martie Moore Public Affairs – Station Break The Army Chaplain dressed in fatigues with a matching yarmulkes and sporting a full beard said he is “paying back” America by serving in the military. Chaplain (Col.) Jacob Goldstein, Drilling Individual Mobilization Augmentee (DIMA) U.S. Army Reserve, Office of Chief of Chaplains First U.S. Army was […]
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