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Jimmy Weldon. Source: Screenshot.

Jimmy Weldon, a liberator of Buchenwald, has a lot to say on life

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Jimmy Weldon, 97, is a voice actor and ventriloquist known for portraying Yakky Doodle and other Hanna-Barbera characters on “The Yogi Bear Show.” He was also once a soldier. Serving with the combat engineers...
From left: Jewish War Veterans Chief of Staff Robert Nussbaum, Maj. Gen. of the Minnesota National Guard Shawn Menke, JWV National Commander Jeffrey Sacks and Department Commander of Wisconsin Kim Queen. Credit: Courtesy of Jewish War Veterans.

Facing aging and COVID, Jewish veterans stay the course, as they did during wartime

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When they were young, some stormed the beaches, taking the fight to the enemy; some liberated Nazi concentration camps in Western Europe and forever bear the scars of having witnessed man’s worst inhumanity to...