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was hospitalized for six months in
Wales, then spent two more months in
a Los Angeles hospital.
A native of St. Paul, Minn.,
Glassman, one of nine children,
moved as a youngster with his family
to Los Angeles "to escape the cold," he
said. "My father was a shoemaker, and
we couldn't even afford bar mitzvahs.
We really weren't too religious, but we
did the best we could."
December 5
9:30 am - 2:00 pm
Max M. Fisher
Federation Building
6735 Telegraph Road
Bloomfield Hills
-and-
Jewish Community Center
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building
A. Alfred Taubman Jewish
Community Campus
15110 W. Ten Mile Road
Oak Park
A Daughter's Quest
After getting married, Glassman
moved to Michigan in 1948 to
become a supermarket warehouseman
for A&P, where he took orders for all
of the Detroit area stores in the
national food chain. His wife,
Margaret, died in 1999. His two sons,
Alex and Eddie, live in Denver, but
he's pleased his daughter could attend
the medal ceremony. "I think the
whole thing is phenomenal," said Lea
Trager. "He really deserves this."
She started pushing for the Bronze
Star after encouragement from friends
she met at a picnic two years ago. "We
had to retrace a lot of my father's army
activity because his military records
were apparently destroyed in a fire in
the 1960s," she said. "And when he
entered the hospital, everyone seemed
to forget about the incident. We
couldn't get anywhere with army offi-
cials until Sen. Levin got involved;
then they helped us."
Glassman recalls the anti-Semitism
and racism that were rampant in the
military in the 1940s. "There were a
lot of southerners in the army, and
one of them tried to knife me simply
because I was seen talking to a black
man. I fought him off," he said.
"There were a number of Jews in our
unit, but we kept quiet about it. I
tried to tell everybody that we should
get along because we were all fighting
for the same cause — to win the war
together."
Glassman, who has attended 52
reunions of his outfit, leads a pretty
quiet life now. His main activity is
taking a bus from his Southfield home
to Oak Park five days a week to help
package food for the Meals on Wheels
program. ❑
Super Sunday Blood Drive
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Max M. Fisher
Federation Building
SuperMonday
& Wednesday
December 8 & 9
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Max M. Fisher
Federation Building
Sign up online
www.thisisfederation.org/
supersunday
For more information
call Carol Kaczander
(248) 203-1466 or
kaczander@jfmd.org
FEDERATION'S
2005
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