From Gadi Bossin about Dave Lelchuk, killed on Kibbutz Sa'ar, August 2
Dear Friends,
Thank you all again for your messages of support.
Today is a very sad day for me personally. Today I won't write about myself and my family and how we are experiencing this war, but about Dave Lelchuk, 52, my teammate on the softball team for about ten years up until the mid-1990s. Dave was killed at midday Wednesday by a Katyusha rocket. He died on a pathway outside his house on Kibbutz Saar, just north of Nahariya.
Dave was an outstanding catcher and played for Israel's Maccabiah team in 1989. He was from Boston originally. In his youth, he was a Golden Gloves boxer. He loved to play the tough guy Palooka, but he was a graduate of Cornell University and extradordinarily bright. He was also a one-man SPCA, adopting dogs abandoned on his kibbutz by people who just grew tired of them.
When his softball playing days were over, he took up ballroom dancing. He was a character, one of a kind. He leaves behind his wife, Estie, and two daughters, Michal and Yael, in their early and mid-twenties.
Please remember my friend Dave in your prayers.
Gadi
