38. Determined to Serve
Leonard M. Kravitz was determined to serve his country in a time of war. As his friend Mitch Libman recalled: “His mother and dad fought with him and fought with him and fought with him“. However, Kravitz was over eighteen, so in the end, his parents had no choice but to let him go.
The last time Libman saw his friend, they were standing in a Brooklyn corner, while their mothers played mahjong. Kravitz was throwing a going-away party that night, but Libman was unable to attend. Regret and guilt gnawed at him forever after, when he learned a few months later that his best friend had been killed in Korea. That contributed to Libman’s lifelong quest to see that his hero friend got his just dues.