Goodrell Middle School students filled the auditorium for the 13th annual Veteran’s Day assembly.

Everyone took their seats as guest speaker Ron Levine was introduced. Levine’s father, Henry Sanford Levine, was a First Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a navigator on a B-17, or Flying Fortress, that was shot down over Nazi Germany. Lt. Levine spent the next year and a half as a POW in Stalag Luft I where he “risked his life to pray to his god,” by presiding over secret gatherings of fellow Jewish POWs incarcerated there.

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