Editor’s note: Each year, the fifth grade girls in Mrs. Chana Greenberg’s class at RYNJ publish The Shushan Link, a newspaper created as a project-based

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This piece was given as a eulogy for Walter Krug, z”l, by his son, Rabbi Dr. John Krug, at his levaya on February 21, 2017/

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“Flight attendants, please be seated for the next 10 minutes.” Just the words I didn’t want to hear! I was heading home from a trip