July 4 - Independence Day in the USA and a busy morning at Peta Tikvah as we pack up. There is a send off get together at Kfar Maccabiah and the highlight is the speech of Noam Gershony. Here is part of it.
He was funny,self deprecating and had the audience enamored with his incredible story of heroism and when Ha Tikvah was played upon his winning of the 2012 paraolympics gold, there wasn't a dry eye in the audience.
After many more speeches, we eat a quick lunch and find our bus for Haifa. It is a long ride and we have the bus to ourselves-seven of us spread out. When we finally get to Haifa, it is the beginning of the competition portion of our trip. Our
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