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JAY LECHTMAN
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ewspaper clippings, a
few snapshots, letters
home and some
souvenirs.
These are the tangible
reminders of Jewish par-
ticipation in Operation
Desert Shield.
Yet the hodge-podge of
mementos, on display at the
Jewish War Veterans Na-
tional Memorial Museum
and Archives in Washing-
ton, speaks to the intangible
impact of the war as well.
The bulk of the exhibit,
"American Patriots: Jewish
Soldiers and Operation
Desert Storm," was lent or
donated by the servicemen
and women themselves.
It includes a Muslim
prayer rug, a standard field
ration called an MRE,
photos, letters, home videos
and a small T-shirt collec-
tion commemorating the
war effort and spoofing life
in the Saudi desert. There
are also newspaper articles
in addition to letters and
drawings sent to the troops
by Jewish schoolchildren
around the nation.
The expanding exhibit,
which began Feb. 11, was
the brainchild of Curator
Leslie M. Freudenheim.
"This is what we do," she
said. "So why wait 50 years,
until the documents and
photos are lost?"
So this display of "almost
instant history," as one
visitor commented in a JWV
guest book, was created in
an empty meeting room in
the organization's national
headquarters.
"The war was so fast that
by the time we got it
mounted, it was practically
over," said Sandor B. Cohen,
the museum's assistant di-
rector and archivist. "Now
it's officially part of histo-
ry. ),
As soldiers return home in
greater numbers, the exhibit
will continue to grow, Mrs.
Freudenheim said.
Through the exhibit, the
first contingent of returnees
already provides one with a
great sense of the issues —
and ironies — facing Ameri-
can Jews who defended Arab
nations.
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A Jewish soldier's letter home —
from Army Private Kim Abramson
in Saudi Arabia to her parents in
Beverly Hills, Calif.
difficulties of being Jewish
in the Persian Gulf.
"I do not keep kosher on
the ship because it's nearly
impossible," Aaron Nogah of
Florida, a sailor aboard the
USS Saratoga, wrote to a
friend. "Please send me junk
food . . . Doritos, potato
chips, soda, or something
like that."
There were the unexpected
friendships among tradi-
tional foes.
"This soldier's name is
Khalid," wrote Marine Staff
Sgt. Alan Adler of New
"Why wait 50 years,
until the
documents and
photos are lost?"
Leslie M. Freudenheim
Jersey to his wife — on the
back of a photograph of him
and a Saudi officer. "He told
me that if I would convert to
Muslim I could marry his
sister."
And then, there was a view
of the fraud that can lie
behind rigid Moslem restric-
tions on such things as
clothing and alcohol.
"The hypocritical part
came in when it is time to
obey," wrote one female
soldier in a letter to her
parents. "A group of us met
two Arab men one night who
told us they would meet us
at the Pizza Hut, after they
picked up their Johnny
Walker Red for the even-
ing's activities."
The exhibit is expected to
run until late August, when
it will travel to the JWV's
national convention in
Atlanta.
The museum has also
received requests to put the
show on the road —from