The story of Jules Doneson
"I want you to carry one of the Torahs scrolls," Chaplain Major Naditch said to me as I approached the bima. I shifted my weapon to my left side and prepared to shoulder the Torah on my right. Was it sacrilegious to hold an instrument of death in one hand and the Tree of Life in the other? Given the circumstances I didnt think so.
Somehow I had known as I made my way through the mobs of people crowding in the Great Synagogue's courtyard that morning that I would be given a Torah honor. Not because I was such a hero. I just figured that if I were organizing the event it would make sense to the give the kavod, the honor, of carrying the Torah scrolls to Jewish soldiers representing the Allied nations....
