Thursday, September 22, MS DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Rabbi Repeats Iwo Jima Vow MEW YORK—A pledge taken "at the dedication of the Fifth Marine Division cemetery at Iwo Jima four years ago was repeated by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn. of the Central Synagogue of Rockville Centre, L. I., who de- livered a Flag Day sermon under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee on the "Tele- ! vision Chapel" program of Sta- tion WPIX. As Jewish chaplain of the Fifth Marine Division, Rabbi Gittel- sohn recalled the harrowing days of the Iwo Jima campaign and the pledge pronounced when the cemetery was dedicated: RABBI GITTELSOHN "To you who sleep here silently, we give our promise . . Too much blood has gone into this tive conspiracy, we all lifted our soil for' us to let it lie barren. eyes to the top of Suribachi and Too much pain and heartache saw there the flag which many have fertilized the earth on which of us had seen lifted on that spot three weeks earlier for the first we stand. "We here solemnly swear: this time in history. • • , • shall not be in vain! Out of this, will come—we promise—the birth MAGNIFICENT SIGHT "THAT WAS THE most inex- of a newfreedom for the sons of men eve ,ywhere." pressibly beautiful sight I have . • • • ever seen! That was the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of TAKEN FOR GRANTED TOO MANY PEOPLE take the happiness for all men,—of every American flag for granted, Rabbi color, every class, and every Gittelsohn said. "I shall never creed. "In that moment our weariness again, for the rest of my life, be able to salute an American flag and dejection were somehow without feeling, deep within my miraculously lifted from us. In heart, at least some small spark that moment we understood, as of the wonderfully warm pride most of us never had before, what which filled me on a Wednesday it means to be an American and morning back in March of 1945. to love the American flag., "It was almost the end of the "For there we stood—we who American campaign in Iwo Jima. had captured Iwo—with no dikes As Jewish chaplain of the Fifth of discrimination or distinction Marine Division I had lived keeping us anart. No quotas! No through nearly five weeks of the segregation! No restrictive coven- most miserably fiendish hell that ants No one said, this row is for ever existed on this earth. I stood Negro graves and this for the there that morning with my graves of whites. No one decreed friends at the foot of Mt. Suri- that since Jews are only 3t4 per bachi, waiting for the official ded- cent of this nation's population, ication of our division's cemetery. therefore they can be only 31/2 • • • per cent of the dead on Iwo. "Whatever differences may have GLIMPSE OF FLAG "WE WERE JUST about as existed between us just didn't weary and dejected a group of seem to count any more in that men as human eyes have ever moment. We were all Americans. seen. Our dungarees were cover- And that was the only thing that ed with the filth and grime of mattered. combat. Our eyes and ears and throats were choked with unut- One Jew in Business terable dust. "Beneath the ground on which in Upper Silesia Town we stood. more than 1,500 men UPPER SILESIA —(World News from our division alone had al- Services)—More than 2,700 Jews ready been buried. Distant echoes live in the city of Nova Hilda of gunfire off on the horizon told in . .Upper Silesia. Only one of our anxious hearts there would the 2,700 owns a business—a be more yet before we were fin- restaurant. The rest are all work- ished. ers in local mines, factories and "And then, as we stood there, print shops. with scarcely the strength and The Jewish Chronicle news will to keep ourselves from fall- ing, suddenly as if by in intui- deadline is noon on Mondays. •• SELF SERVE ICE-0-MATS ANYTIME DAY OR NIGHT • CUBE • BLOCK I C • CRUSHED E THERE'S ONE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Page If Plural Wives of Yemenites Are Problem polygamy will be abolished be accepted only after they have sooner or late and meanwhile it completed at least one year at the is hoped social pressure will in- Yeshiva B'nai Akivah. hibit it even among the Yemen- ites whose living standards in "MR. GOLDSTEIN," a suppli- line with those of all Israeli Jews might rise to the point where cant said, "please lend me a hun- even those who now cannot will dred dollars. I shall be forever TEL AVIV — (World News be able to support more than one mdebted,,to you." Services) — Having reported the spouse. "That's the trouble," Goldstein debate on polygamy in the replied as he refused the loan • Knesseth, further information is submitted on the situation which Yeshivah for Farmers in the main affects a small group of Arabs now living in the coun- Is Mapped in Israel try and a certain number of JERUSALEM — (MNB)—Plans Yemenite Jews whose total is for the opening of a combined only 45,000, Yeshivah and agricultural col- Little need be said about the lege aimed at training religious Arabs among whom polygamy is farmers were announced here by still practiced where economically the World Mizrachi headquarters. possible. 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