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Story by By Molly Hayden, U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwoehr Public Affairs. Original article via U.S. Army Public Affairs. GRAFENWOEHR, Germany (Nov. 9, 2012) — It’s been nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, but for 87-year-old U.S. Army veteran Gilbert Unger, some memories refuse to fade. “I was so naïve then,” said Unger of his 19-year-old self, admitting […]
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Capt. Gary Davidson at Ramstein AB has undertaken an extraordinary project: he is attempting to open all the standing synagogues in the Rhineland-Pfalz area, have a service in each, and affix a mezuzah–all in memory of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. His first opening was at Odenbach, and it was a great success. The mayor spoke, and 51 people […]
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Earlier this month, I received this great report from Chaplain Shlomo Shulman, who is currently stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany. Yesterday in the PX, I ran into a couple of senior Israeli officers attending a planning conference at Grafenwöhr. There are 27 of them altogether, but 5 of them keep kosher, so they’d been eating army rations in their hotel room […]
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