The last photograph of Morris Chaim Blake, taken one month before his death (July 16, 1997).  He is shown here with his two grandchildren and great grandchildren  ...  to him, they are what it was all about.

I remember a conversation we had when I was a young boy. I asked him why he had volunteered for service with the Jewish Legion. "With the establishment of an independent Jewish homeland," he replied, "we will never again have to fear being chased from our homes, or persecuted, or debased for being who we are. It will provide us with the security of a haven, and will legitimize us and earn us respect. I did this not only for you and your brother and your mother, but for your children and your children's children to come."

And so it was!

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