Jewish U.S. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

A Jewish U.S. intelligence officer has been killed in Afghanistan. First Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte, 25, died this past week of wounds suffered in a roadside bomb attack near Kabul. She is the first female graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy to be killed in action in Afghanistan or Iraq. Schulte’s funeral was held Monday in Creve Coeur, Mo., west of St. Louis.“Memorial Day will never be the same,” Rabbi Mark Shook told the hundreds who crowded a synagogue for the service. “No one in this place will ever take Memorial Day for granted again.”

{Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com/JTA}