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to give a positive spin to what
was happening overseas. Now
75 and still writing his column
for The Jewish News, Mr.
Raskin remembers how diffi-
cult it was back then.
"I sometimes felt I couldn't do
it," he said. "I remember how
the boys from Detroit would
write in so that I could mention
their names in the paper. One
of them wrote me that he was
sensing something big about to
happen, but he didn't know
when or where. After the inva-
sion, I never heard from him
again."
Pvt. Irving Woolf of Tuxedo
Avenue wrote a poem:
Thank you Detroit, victorious
Soviets shout.
Because of you, the battle's no
longer in doubt.
From England and China
also comes praise.
For now they can see better
and more glorious days.
America has built an indus-
trial nation.
Great enough to meet any sit-
uation.
Though our industries are
vast and spread throughout the
land,
When battles need winning
Detroit is on hand.
Thank Goc4 the allies win vic-
tories on land and in the skies,
But remember, Detroit is
where production victory lies.
A national story recounted
Jewish firsts in the invasion
and in the war. For example,

Lt. Abraham Condiotti of New
York was the commander of the
first wave of small assault boats
in the invasion between Cher-
bourg and Le Havre. Locally, a
story reported on a speech giv-
en by Army Chaplain Morris
Adler, the rabbi of Shaarey
Zedek, stationed at Rhoades
General Hospital in Utica, N.Y.
Some final war notes:
A classified ad read: Navy
wife with two-year-old baby will
share flat with service wife with
baby. Second choice: wife with
baby.
"It's good to be home again,
but it will be wonderful when
this is over and all our Yanks
come marching home," wrote
Sgt. Murray S. Polansky of Ford
Avenue. Sgt. Polansky was on
a 21-day furlough after a knee
operation. "For the present, 21
days is enough, because there
is still work to be done."
Advertising executive
Leonard Simons was in his 30s
during the invasion. He enlist-
ed, but was turned down for
military service because of his
age. He would become the ad-
vertising director of the U.S.
Treasury's Michigan War Bond
Division.
"You got emotionally
aroused," said Mr. Simons, now
approaching 90. "Everyone
wanted to wave the flag. I was
one of those dollar-a-year vol-
unteers. Fm still waiting for my
buck." ❑

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nephew, Albert, is a rabbi in
Grand Rapids.
eonard Lewin was
Leonard's only child, his
buried in Normandy daughter Linda, lives in St.
and posthumously re- Louis where she is active in
ceived the Purple fund raising for AIDS and the
symphony. She is the mother of
Heart.
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went to visit her first husband's for her father.
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grave. Her second husband, to
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and Mr. Lewin met when they ceiving a Rhodes Scholarship to
were both selling poppies for Oxford University in England.
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