Baltimore, MD – Some 500 people on Tuesday attended the Baltimore funeral of US soldier Matthew Ryan Seidler, a Jewish airman who was killed in Afghanistan.
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Seidler died on January 5th of injuries sustained in an attack in Shir ghazi, located in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan.
“He loved the Air Force. It was his calling. There was no second choice,” His father Marc Seidler was quoted as saying by the Jewish Baltimore Times. “He was very happy with his band of brothers, and [being in the US Air Force] reconnected him with the importance of family. He loved getting the letters and emails and packages.”
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May his neshama have an aliya!
BD”E!
baruch dayan emes. a kiddush hashem.
BD”E
Its truly a sad day whenever we lose one of our boys that go over there and fight these sub human vermin terrorists. and to any Jew out there that thinks this kid died in vein and it might somehow be against halacha…go get your head examined and after that you need to perform a true cheshbon hanefesh because that just proves that you have no clue what it means to be a true yiras shamaiym and oivad hashem. Where is your ahavas yisroel ? this young kid along with his brothers in arm (regardless of their religious status) went over to fight those bastards SO THAT WE CAN REMAIN FREE.
Show some respect, a bit of gratitude. You should try it sometime it might actually do you some good.
I agree 100% with numbers 6 & 7. #5 ’s statement was not only insensitive, during the period of Shiva, but was inaccurate and way off base. At a time of increased anti-semitism, there are always Jew haters who claim that Jews have never fought for their country. Hence, this brave Airman, in his own way, refuted those false claims.