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APRIL 15, 2021 | The Jewish Home OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home
HONORING
Colonel Larry Franklin An Unsung American Patriot & Friend to the Jewish People BY MICHELLE ZIMMERMAN
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n 1950s New York, a young boy is encouraged by his mother to memorize the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. The opening stanza would ultimately symbolize his life and provide strength in times of despair:
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating… That boy is Colonel Lawrence Franklin, a “Righteous Gentile” of this generation. This is his story.
