We have friends who like to make special dinners and invite special people to come and speak. Once they invited the first three soldiers able to kiss the Kosel after the Six Day War.
This last time they invited the three Israeli Air Force pilots who flew their F-16s over Saddam Hussein’s Iraq on June 7 1981 to destroy the Osirak atomic reactor.
The pilots in their 50s had brought their wives along because as they shared with us toward the end they were just as interested in hearing what we as religious Jews had to say as we were interested in hearing their story.
Particularly interesting was that they and their wives were as enthusiastic about the mission 32 years later as they had been on that day.
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