The Tallest Soldier

A Veterans Day surprise (that maybe shouldn't be surprising)

I never met my paternal grandfather, Jake B. Kander. He died when my father was only sixteen. But stories of “Zayde Jake” loomed large in my childhood. During the pandemic, Dad began writing recollections of his father and emailing them to my siblings and me. Many of the anecdotes were about his father’s humor, his father’s extended family, his father’s…