Passover package makes Jewish soldier's day in Iraq
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We all know that care packages are morale boosters for soldiers deployed overseas. A 25-year-old Iraq veteran told me last year how he and others in his unit looked forward to letters and care packages coming from back home.
“When mail call comes around and your name isn’t called, it’s a downer. You hear your name and it turns your spirits around,” Anthony Metichecchias told me last July while he helped senior citizens prepare care packages for a young Rockland soldier in Iraq. “If you’re under fire and have received a letter, it’s still a good day.”
I recalled his words when I saw this e-mail of appreciation from Roy Marokusa who is stationed in Iraq:
“I recalled his words when I saw this e-mail of appreciation from Roy Marokusa who is stationed in Iraq.
I am a Jewish soldier in the Regular Army, serving my second tour in Iraq. Yesterday, I received a most wonderful and unexpected package of Passover supplies from the Fred Hecht JWV Post 425, in Spring Valley NY.
As an old bar mitzvah and cheder bocher, and a graduate of SUNY Downstate Brooklyn School of Medicine, I am greatly touched by the generosity and the mitzvah shown by my fellow Jewish American war veterans.
L’chaim, tovim, v’shalom!”
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