Review by Cindy Chambers and Jordana Green Laurent The National Portrait Gallery’s “The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now” examines the toils and tribulations of modern warfare in the lives of US service members. The six installations, ranging from photography to audio-visual, capture moments of pain, boredom, and camaraderie. Death, in all […]
By Chuck Ashman, Deputy Commander JWV California Sgt. Alvin York, the legendary Medal of Honor recipient from World War I, was the first person to have a VA Medical Center bear his name in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The second, Audie Murphy, was the most decorated soldier in World War II. His name is on the VA […]
By Stan Levinson, Post 172 Commander Sarasota/Manatee Post 172 held its annual JROTC Awards Banquet was held on Sunday, February 19, 2017. It was a huge success. Each year, Post 172 plans one of its monthly meetings as an Awards Banquet, where we award medals to four high school cadets, who have been nominated by […]
By Dr. Barry Schneider Ft. Worth Post 755 and past TALO Department Commander Twenty-two cadets from the Air Force Academy, Virginia Military Academy (VMI), Amherst, Princeton, and Colorado State met for a weekend of comradeship and learning at the annual Jewish Warrior Weekend: Aggieland, which took place from April 14-16, 2017 at Texas A&M University. […]
By Geoff Terman, Edited by Adam Lammon Since 2005 there have been 42 separate attacks against people in or adjacent to houses of worship in the U.S., resulting in 137 casualties. Considering that America currently has about 345,000 houses of worship with nearly 150 million congregants from 230 diverse denominations, we must establish a ubiquitous […]
Lance Allen Wang, Assoc. Editor I remember it clear as day. Our Jewish lay leader at Victory Base in Baghdad was redeploying, and she asked the 10-12 of us, located in a small room off to the side of a plywood Chapel surrounded by blast walls, furnished with a few folding chairs and a small […]
By Seth Meyerowitz with Peter F. Stevens Book review by Sheldon A. Goldberg, Ph.D. Docent/Historian, NMAJMH One of the greatest fears of airmen during World War II – especially Jewish airmen – was to be shot down and captured by the Nazis. Allied airmen, regardless of their religion, were labeled terrorflieger – terrorist airmen – […]
By Jeffrey R. Weitzenkorn Commander, Post 735 MA On January 30, 2017, representatives of Sharon Post 735 presented a check in the amount of $1,600 to Richard Leeman, Assistant Chief of Voluntary Service, and Lana Otis, Voluntary Services Program Manager, at the Brockton Campus of the Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System. The Post raised these […]
By Jordana Green Regardless of political leanings, the rise of anti-Semitism on a national level is a concerning and bipartisan issue. In a viral Facebook post written on February 4th, a New York City subway rider recounted how he and his fellow passengers worked together to erase Nazi symbols scrawled across the subway car using […]
Lance Allen Wang, Assoc. Editor In one of the classic books on the evolution of American warfare, historian Russell Weigley described how conventional American warfare developed into a strategy of “send bullets, not men.” Indeed, it is a fundamental truism of American warfare that there is a trade-off between large numbers of American casualties and […]
