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to spend many hours to find every-
thing they needed. They feared that
food wouldn't be available either.
When they reached the storage
warehouse and, after going inside it,
they found that this building was, in
fact, clean and all the equipment was
in order on the shelves. Food boxes
were put in order by dates with the
oldest in the front and the newest in
the back. They were astounded and
very happy at this sight. Notes of
encouragement and wishes for God's
protection as well as other words of
inspiration were left by Sar-El volun-
teers.
Instead of needing eight, 10 or
even 12 hours to organize, they were
ready to leave in just two hours! He
told us that this valuable timesaver
saved lives. If the enemy had attacked
Israel and they would have needed
eight hours to be battle ready, this
delay would not have been measured
in hours or miles, but in casualties.
Many soldiers' would have been
wounded or their lives lost in action,
taking back the land that was lost.
Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield
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I received this note from a longtime
Volunteers for Israel/Sar-El volunteer
from Lansing:
On the weekend, my daughter and
my granddaughter and I were walk-
ing through the Old City in Jerusalem.
We were strolling through the Jewish
Quarter. We stopped at a store where
samples of iced coffee and fruit
were distributed among the gather-
ing crowd. We were talking with an
employee of that store and told him we
were volunteers for Sar-El and that we
were working on a base in Israel for
several weeks. When he heard that, he
told us the following story —
When the conflict had begun in
Gaza, his army unit was called into
action. The unit's equipment, however,
and their food supplies were kilome-
ters away in the Golan. They all need-
ed to be bussed to the Golan to their
storage unit to pick up these supplies.
All the way up, they were complaining
about everything was going to be in a
mess; they were sure they would have
Senator Kennedy
Growing up, I visited my cousin in
Washington, D.C., several times. In
three different years, we watched the
U.S. Senate in session. Three-quarters
of the seats were vacant when a bill
wasn't being voted on. However, each
of my visits found Senator Edward
Kennedy in his seat, hard at work.
I was so impressed watching his
"Irish wake" on TV and learning of all
his many kindnesses to people void of
publicity.
It impressed me that Senator
Kennedy went to assassinated Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's funeral
and brought small bags of soil from
President John Kennedy's and Senator
Robert Kennedy's gravesites. He lov-
ingly placed their gravesite soil on
Rabin's gravesite after the public left.
I hope Senator Edward Kennedy will
be remembered for his many good
deeds and not the 1969 incident at
Chappaquiddick.
Sue Smith
Southfield