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24A January 2022 JEWISH INTEREST

Remembering the Battle of the Bulge and honoring my

father’s WWII military victory at Israel’s Ammunition Hill In the first international agreement for SpaceIL, the Beresheet 2 mission

By Mark Lonstein is to be a joint Israeli-Emirates project.
By Abigail Klein Leichman, October 21, 2021, ISRAEL21c
y father, Barnett Lonstein chicken store, plucking and preparing home on leave during basic training another important battle in 1967.
(1923-2012), was a first-gen- fresh chickens to be ready for pickup and dressed in his military uniform, Through this initiative, his bravery and
Meration Jewish American, his on Friday by the local Jewish commu- the local businessmen would never let the valor of so many others who served
parents having emigrated from Lithu- nity for their Sabbath meal. him pay for anything if he went to the will be remembered for generations to
ania between 1910 and 1911. He was He was eventually drafted into Jewish deli for a 15-cent corned beef come.
born and raised in Worcester, Massa- the U.S. Army on August 12, 1943, a sandwich or into an ice cream shop.
chusetts, during the Depression, facing day he would recount to me with pride In early September 1944, he was
the hardships many others of his gen- many times during my youth, as it was transported with his fellow soldiers
eration experienced. He was only able also the day of my birth 11 years later. on the S.S. Argentina to England, then
to attend junior high and high school My dad would tell me how supportive onto the beaches of France to join the
Monday through Thursday, having and patriotic all Americans were during fight across Europe as a member of the
to stay up all night Thursday and Fri- WWII and how important that was to 104 Regiment of the 26 Yankee Divi-
th
th
day morning to help out at his father’s the morale of the troops. When he was sion. Dad spent the next year traveling
and fighting through France, Luxem-
bourg and Germany in the Battle of the
KEREN Bulge, experiencing all the dangers,
horrors and destruction of the war.
MIZRAHI served his country in its hour of need,
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When I was made aware of Jew-
ish National Fund-USA’s Wall of Hon- Barnett Lonstein
or initiative at Ammunition Hill in To honor a member of the armed
Jerusalem, I couldn’t think of a more forces, living or passed, on JNF-USA’s
meaningful way to honor my father’s Wall of Honor, contact JNF-USA Di-
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Sarasota Jewish community and re-
great military victory of WWII, now
from home via has his name on a permanent plaque Wall of Honor in recognition of his savesave
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