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Nancy Spielberg, Choices speaker, likes ‘unsung heroes’

Nancy Spielberg interviewed the US Armed Forces veterans who helped found the air force of the State of Israel, they didn’t brag about their achievements. “I had to pull it out of them,” she says, “because they would just shrug their shoulders and say, ‘That’s just what we had to do.’” As if a bunch of Jewish American GIs risking their American citizenship and jail, not to mention their lives, to help the nascent Jewish state is shrug-worthy. Of course it wasn’t, and the film that Spielberg made, “Above and Beyond,” is not only a record but a tribute to these very brave souls. Spielberg will address Choices, Feb. 1, 6 p.m., at Denver Marriott Tech Center. If Spielberg has a brand to her filmmaking, […]
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