Look out, Tail-Gunner Joe
It's often the case that the most fascinating reading in the Tribune is on the obituary page.
Florence Kaplan Strindberg died Tuesday after leading a life of service and hell raising. Born in the Br
onx in 1926, Strindberg, a social worker, worked in Harlem and with psychiatric patients in New Jersey. Her energetic opposition to red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy, the Korean, Vietnam, Grenada and two Iraq wars attracted the surveillance of the
scrapbookers at the FBI.
Trib political editor Dan Harrie found Strindberg's final request blog-worthy, read about it here.
Florence Kaplan Strindberg died Tuesday after leading a life of service and hell raising. Born in the Br
onx in 1926, Strindberg, a social worker, worked in Harlem and with psychiatric patients in New Jersey. Her energetic opposition to red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy, the Korean, Vietnam, Grenada and two Iraq wars attracted the surveillance of the scrapbookers at the FBI."She is survived by her two absolutely wonderful children... who thank her for instilling in them a sense of humanity, but will continue to blame her for any problems or difficulties they experience in life.... She achieved the goal of any Jewish mother when her son became a lawyer and her daughter a surgeon."She donated her body to science, of course.
Trib political editor Dan Harrie found Strindberg's final request blog-worthy, read about it here.
1 Comments:
this lady is a hero because she did not want dictators and repressive regimes to loose their stranglehold on their people? one would think that a Jew would not want others to suffer the way her people have thru the ages. I guess not.
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