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American Jewish Woman Dies in Line of Duty in Afghanistan by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) The first female U.S. Air Force Academy graduate to die in the U.S. counter-terror campiagns in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Jew, fell in the line of duty last week in an insurgency attack in Afghanistan. Air Force 1st Lieutenant Roslyn Schulte was traveling from Kabul […]
Read moreJewish Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan January 7, 2009 SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – A South African-born Jewish soldier serving in the Australian army was killed in Afghanistan. Pvt. Gregory Sher, 30, was with a Special Operations Task Group when he was killed Sunday in a rocket attack by Taliban insurgents on a military compound in the Oruzgan Province, southwest of […]
Read moreThis article includes the oratory that was done to Honor my grand-daughter A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson at the ALS Graduation at Patrick Air Force Base. They had dedicated the graduation to Elizabeth and presented a flag to me. Two ALS graduates of the 45th Security Forces Squadron, SrA Christopher Ward who put this all together to honor Elizabeth and SSgt […]
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO – Jake Yelner thought he’d pulled a fast one on his mother. He enrolled at Diablo Valley College near his hometown of Lafayette, in the East Bay – but he never showed up for classes. His mom finally busted him, dragging him to campus to prove that he wasn’t a student. “He never went to school at all, […]
Read moreServices set for Chicago soldier Bitton who died in Iraq By Robert Mitchum and Mary Owen | Tribune reporter February 25, 2008 Services for Cpl. Albert Bitton, a 20-year-old Chicago Army medic who died last week in Iraq, have been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at a Chicago synagogue, his family said. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m […]
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On Thursday, Private First Class Daniel Agami was killed by a roadside bomb. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. In a standing-room-only crowd that snaked outside the chapel, Pfc. Daniel Agami was memorialized Tuesday by hundreds of friends – and even some strangers from the local chapter of Jewish War Veterans – as a happy-go-lucky man […]
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The Washington Post has a touching story about LCpl Colin Wolfe’s death in Iraq and the loved ones he left behind at home. Wolfe had volunteered for a midday mission in the town of Habbaniya. During the patrol, his Humvee hit a roadside bomb. The blast ignited the gas tank, then the ammunition. He died instantly. He was buried in […]
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