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...what happens after death, though most of them in recent centuries have recited the Credo of Maimonides, the great 12th Century physician-philosopher who believed in the physical resurrection of the dead. "But the hearts of many stricken Jews have also echoed the lament of Job: 'As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.' It is growing harder for modern Jews to believe in physical resurrection. This probably accounts for the increasing trend toward cremation which is found among non-Orthodox Jews...
Mitchell Red Cloud had become a fighting man early in life-almost as early as if he had lived when his Sioux ancestors were warring on the Great Plains. He had left high school, before Pearl Harbor, to join up with the Marines and win his expert rifleman's badge, had served at Midway Island, through the thickest of the struggle on Guadalcanal, and in many a mission with Carlson's Raiders. He had weighed 195 Ibs. when he joined the Marines, only 115 when he was mustered out. But when the Korean war began Mitchell Red Cloud...
...that turned out to be the 19th's good luck. The Chinese charge faltered. Then an enemy burp gun chattered. Mitchell Red Cloud was knocked flat, badly wounded. He pulled himself weakly erect, got one arm around a tree, clung there and went on firing. Then he fell again-dead. But Red Cloud's last stand had given the 19th the time it needed; the company fought its way to safety with its wounded...
Last week the nation did what it could to honor a brave man. Mrs. Nellie Red Cloud, a silent, 53-year-old Winnebago woman who lives in a converted automobile trailer at Friendship, was asked to come to Washington to receive the Medal of Honor (the eighth to be awarded in the Korean war) on behalf...
...Chappie's car delivered the colonel at the front door of the little reservation school, Visiting Chief Thunder Cloud split the air with a lusty war whoop of welcome. Movie cameras from the Trib's Chicago television station ground away as the colonel stalked stiffly in and took his seat on the schoolhouse stage...