
My father, Rabbi Chaplain Abraham Avrech passed away on March 15, 2014. This is the fourth Veteran’s Day without my father’s physical presence in this world.
He is gone, but like all veteran’s certainly not forgotten.
Take a moment to ponder the enormous sacrifices made by our nation’s heroes and their families.
Millions and millions of people all over the world are forever in their debt.
Keep in mind that the U.S.military has freed more people on this earth from tyranny and evil than any other force. Certainly, American servicemen have done more for the cause of freedom and democracy than any so-called peace movement.
Whenever I see the brain-dead bumper sticker, “War is not the Answer,” I cringe, for war is frequently the only answer, the only moral response to evil.












G-d bless my father and all our veterans, living and dead.
G-d bless the United States of America.
I am grateful for your father’s service.
And for my family’s veterans, spanning the centuries from the Battle of Worcester to Korea. G-d bless them all.
My wife and I drove to California (from Tucson) last week for some family business. I have a habit of listening to audio books when I commute to Phoenix a day or two a week. She likes audio books so we listened to Steven Pressfield’s book, “The Lion’s Gate,” about the Six Day War. I have the book in hardcover and have read it before but she likes to listen as we drive. It is an amazing book. If you have not read it, I highly recommend it. It is all first person accounts of the war with Pressfield only adding a few connecting sentences. The men and women were all interviewed 40 years after the war.
His book Killing Rommel is excellent, too. It is a fiction but against historical fact such as the formation of the SAS and the LRDG – Long Range Desert Group.
Robert I can certainly understand your aversion to German war movies from the German’s side but Rommel was maybe the only General the Allies respected. I believe he was forced to commit suicide by Hitler because he was to be the liaison to the allies should the July 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler succeeded.
I sent a copy to my son along with a copy of “Lion’s Gate.” I have read most of Pressfield’s books beginning with “Gates of Fire.”
My father was a WWI veteran who enlisted in the Navy at 15. When the war ended, he confessed his age to get discharged. A sailor in the Pacific in WWII won the Navy Cross but it was learned that he was only 15 and the award was cancelled.
“The Lion’s Gate” is an amazing accomplishment.
A remarkable life and a remarkable man…
My father considered his life pretty ordinary. Like you, I think he was remarkable. Like so many of that generation.