JULY 26 UPDATE: My middle son, Cohiba, called me today to add to the Israel stories below.
Cohiba told me of his first impression of Israel. You drove through barren desert wastes until you approached a series of gates where your identity was confirmed. Once through the gates into Israel, the landscape changed very suddenly to one of green grass, flowers, trees and plants. There was no gradual change, it was all at once.
Cohiba became good friends with an IDF soldier who invited him to spend a weekend with his family. Cohiba said the Israeli family was very warm and treated him like family, too. His IDF friends took Cohiba to an Israeli restaurant where they would tell him Hebrew phrases to repeat to the waitress. He went along with the joke and would repeat what they told him. The waitress would smile and go away. Cohiba then asked, "What did I say?" They replied, "I love you" and another time, "Kiss me."
Cohiba liked a nightclub in Jerusalem called "The Underground." Israeli soldiers would get on the dance floor with Uzis hanging from their shoulders and boogie with the young women that way.
My son told me that his three favorite places on earth are Israel, Hawaii and San Diego. He couldn't praise the Israeli people enough.
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My eldest son Stogie Jr. drives a truck and often calls me from the road. He liked my post "Reply to Atlas Shrugs, We Stand With the Jews." He then told me some more stories about his visits to Israel.
Stogie Jr., and his younger brother Cohiba confirms, that when they were in Israel it was impossible to buy a beer at the local watering hole. That's because IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens would never let their glasses get empty.
All the IDF soldiers in the bar had their loaded Uzis on the tables beside their drinks, and the IDF boys never went anywhere without their weapons. Well, I shouldn't say "boys," because the IDF also has women soldiers. Stogie Jr. visited a beach in Israel where nudity is not only allowed, but widely practiced. While there, a beautiful young Israeli woman walked up to Jr. and asked for a light for her cigarette. She was completely nude, except for the Uzi hanging from her shoulder by its strap.
Stogie also had a long conversation with a 50ish Israeli woman, who was also quite beautiful. (Beautiful women seem to be plentiful in Israel.) While she was buying beers for Jr. and his buddy, she told them she had been the equivalent of a First Sergeant in the Israeli war with Egypt (probably the War of Attrition of 1969 - 1970), and mentioned that she personally had killed "many Egyptians."
Once while they were having beers on the outside patio, an Israeli IDF helicopter landed across the street from the bar, and when the pilot got out, they saw it was another beautiful Israeli woman, well built and with ample cleavage proudly displayed. While the Americans were slobbering all over themselves, she bought a beer, turned around and smiled at the American soldiers and raised her glass to them in a salute.
There was an Israeli kid, about 11 or 12, who adopted Jr. and his buddy and followed them around everywhere, so they let him watch television with them in the hotel. The young lad was anxious to grow up and join the IDF. Maybe he's out there in South Lebanon now.
Junior tells me he would love to go back to Israel. He loved the country and the people. God bless them all.
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