From Days Gone By: Fort Bragg, Summer of ’68

A group of Bochurim on Merkos Shlichus visit Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army base in North Carolina, in the summer of 1968. Can you identify anyone in the photo?

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29 Comments

  • Hecht Kaplan Goldstein

    Left to right: Rabbis Sholom Ber Hecht, Nochum Kaplan, Yankel Goldstein.

  • LEFT TO RIGHT

    Rabbi S.B Hecht
    Rabbi Kaplan
    Rabbi Goldstein
    now you know the rest of the story

  • oak park mi

    left to right:

    sholom ber hecht, nochum kaplan(?), chaplain yaakov goldstein

  • B.G. oak park mi

    left to right;
    SHOLOM BER HECHT, NOCHUM KAPLAN (?),
    CHAPLAIN YAAKOV GOLDSTIN

  • Yehuda

    The one to the far right looks to me like jack Goldstein (army chaplain).
    The one to the far left maybe Hecht?

  • Yehuda

    The one to the far right looks to me like jack Goldstein (army chaplain).
    The one to the far left, maybe a Hecht?

  • unknown

    one on left looks like sholom ber hecht and one on right looks like yankel goldstein, not sure the middle

  • Chaplain Yankel Goldstein

    I remember that Purim well . We went to Ft Bragg at the request of the Jewish Chaplain to Chabad to send Rabbis there to read the megillah , lead the davening and spend good quality time with the Jewish soldiers assigned to Ft. Bragg . The Rabbi was reform and a group of the soldiers were orthodox and gave him a hard time . This was at the height of the Vietnam War and Ft Bragg was a major Training base besides other things that were happening there . Since there was the Draft there were a lot of Jewish recruits there and were fearful of Combat . We were Mechazek them through putting on teffilan etc. 8 years later I became a Jewish Chaplain in uniform and served my country for 38 years until my retirement last year . youcan say this was the start .