On Aug 27, 2006, at 6:57 AM, B. wrote:
> [For more Simmons douche-baggery, check out this
> interview w/ Terry Gross:
> http://www.maniahill.com/funny/
> Gene_Simmons_Terry_Gross_Fresh_Air_02_04_2002.htm
> -B.]
>
>
> Gene Simmons sends video to Israeli
>
> Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:32 PM ET
>
> JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli-born "KISS" rocker Gene
> Simmons sent a get-well video to an Israeli soldier
> wounded in Lebanon, calling him a hero the world
> should be proud of.
>
> "I can't tell you how proud I am of you and how much
> the world and Israel owe you a debt of gratitude,"
> Simmons told Ron Weinreich, a tank crewman paralyzed
> from the chest down, in a video broadcast on Saturday
> on Israel's Channel 2 television.
>
> Channel 2 said the KISS bassist made the video for
> Weinreich, a fan of the legendary rock group, at the
> request of Israel's Soldiers' Welfare Association, a
> fund-raising group.
>
> Weinreich, hospitalized near Tel Aviv, was wounded two
> weeks ago in fighting against Hizbollah guerrillas.
>
> "From the bottom of my heart, you're a real hero,
> you're everybody's hero, you're my hero," said
> Simmons, who recorded the video in the United States
> and added in Hebrew: "My name is Chaim. I was born in
> Haifa."
>
> Simmons was born Chaim Witz in the northern Israeli
> port city in 1949. He emigrated to the United States
> at the age of eight with his mother, a survivor of a
> Nazi concentration camp.
>
> http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?
> type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-08
> -26T173158Z_01_L26792204_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-ISRAEL-
> SIMMONS.xml&archived=False&src=082606_1450_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuter
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