One WWII Army Blanket Warms Two Army Veterans

WW II veteran donates Army blanket to homeless vet 
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
By Marvin Glassman
May 18, 2015

Lepolstat, who will turn 94 on May 29, received the Army blanket when he was discharged from a hospital in Springfield, Missouri in 1943. Lepolstat was with the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1942-46.

When World War II veteran Stanley Lepolstat of Hollywood offered an old Army blanket of his to the Temple Sinai of Hollywood blanket drive for the homeless last February, he had no idea how significant the 72-year-old army blanket would be for the recipient.

According to Rabbi Gideon Goldenholtz of Temple Sinai, the recipient of the blanket was, like Lepolstat, also a veteran of the Army and he was looking specifically for an Army blanket.

"While we were handing out our blankets, a 28-ish homeless veteran came up and asked 'Do you have any army blankets?' We had the Army blanket from Stanley Lepolstat and gave it to him.

His face and eyes lit up a little when he said 'Thank you very much' and he appeared to feel a little safer holding onto the blanket," said Goldenholz.

"I consider the story of a veteran who is homeless receiving the blanket as a miracle. It is so important to me that the person who received the Army blanket was a veteran.

I don't know why I kept the Army blanket for so many years, but I am so very happy for donating it when I did," said Lepolstat.

"Was it Bashert, meant to be, or merely a coincidence? We think not," said Goldenholz. read more here