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for the first time in history , a Torah

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scroll is being delivered to Kandahar

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airfield . Its significance is that

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it's the only one in Afghanistan on a

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more personal level to Afghanistan and

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to the wars we've been involved in .

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But it's also a link . The Torah

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is written by a scribe on

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parchment which takes about a year .

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The scroll was written in memory of

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fallen U . S . Service members .

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Something that Chaplin y says makes its

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delivery that much more significant .

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It was also given by the jewish

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community centers um in Memphis area

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Memphis Tennessee and memory

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of two marines were both killed in

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Anbar province Iraq um back in 2000

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and four and 2000 and six , First

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Lieutenant Stern and they captain

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Soccer . It was a way that the

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community wanted to perpetuate their

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memory And what more fitting way than

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having a toro which is perpetuates our

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traditions , our values and to tie and

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connect these two individuals . So that

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when I read this Torah , I'm also

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thinking of them as well . And that's

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pretty neat and that's pretty special .

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And I think it's an honor to be part of

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that . The scroll will be preserved and

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maintained by the chapel staff at can't

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heart until it finds its next home Army

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Sergeant Crystal Madrid's Kandahar

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Airfield Afghanistan