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P»|< 2 — THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE, Jure 1, 1973
CAPITAL COMMENT
Four Jewish POW’s
TUMULTUOUS WELCOME FOR KUSHNER
MAJOR KUSHNER, who is half brother of Dr. R. L. Kushner Jr. of
Atlanta and a brother of Ben Fox, 24, also of Atlanta, is slowly getting
squared way with himself and his resumed life in the States. Besides the
reacquainting process with family and friends, there is the matter of
career, interrupted by Army service. While awaiting corrective surgery of
a minor nature, he feels he may wait around for a year refreshing his
medical recall while under the Army umbrella, then actualy completing his
residency at an Army installation. By then he may be close to having a
cumulative time of 20 years necessary for retirement at generous pay,
computed with the advantages of flight pay, overseas pay and whatever
other advantages Congress may tack on to his career in the way of com
pensative benefits. He told a member of his family he may decide to
specialize in ophalmology, or a small area of medical knowledge, rather
than select a field which might require broader scope. But all this is in the
future. — THE EDITOR
By Joseph Polakoff
(POW Series Part Two)
Army Major Floyd H Kushner,
one of the four POWs officially
identified as Jewish who returned
to the United States from Viet
nam, came home to a community
reception at the Danville. Va. air
port.
“I'm trying very hard not to
cry,” he told the crowd "The
words come hard but the tears
come easy."
An assistant to Congressman
Dan Daniel, who represents the
Danville area, read this excerpt
from the Danville Register’s ac
count of the reception with unusual
expression over the telephone to
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
She explained she had been
“Spanky's" baby-sitter and then
asked not to be identified further.
The Register, founded in 1847,
bannered the reception "Kushner
Given Tumultous Welcome." It
said “several thousand" were at
the airport. He received many
gifts, including a car from the city
and a scrapbook about hint from
the Chamber of Commerce. The
mayor and former mayor made
speeches. Rabbi Norman Auer
bach of Temple Beth Sholem, a
Reform congregation where Major
Kushner had been Bar Mitzva,
pronounced the invocation.
Major Kushner arrived in Dan
ville from Valley Forge Hospital in
Pennsylvania with his wife, Valerie
Kushner, nationally famous in her
own right as an anti-war activist
who seconded Senator George
McGovern’s nomination for the
Presidency at the Democratic con
vention last June, and their spn and
daughter.
Danville, a textile and tobacco
marketing center of 48,000, is
noted for being the site of the last
meeting of Jefferson Davis'
Cabinet after the Confederacy had
lost Richmond. It now has sixty
Jewish families and Orthodox and
Reform congregations. The Ma
jor’s grandfather. Rabbi David
Kushner, was the Orthodox rabbi
there for many years before his
death in 1964.
Rabbi Kushner’s Orthodoxy
Continued on Page 7
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