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Sawyer, Danny

Sawyer, Danny


Son of Shlomo and Victoria. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 27, 1946, the family immigrated to Israel in 1950. Danny completed his elementary studies at the Szold School and continued to study at the municipal high school A. Danny belonged to the ” He was very devoted to his pupils and yearned for them, but he did not let go of the bee grower, which was one of his hobbies, and he loved to read and photograph. This is the part he always held in his pocket: “My children, to the heads of the mountains, I brought you up and saw this land, the mountain line opposite, this sky – your sky! See her, you’re the one! “I will tell you, I will sing to you, I will sing to you one whole land, on blue, promising avenues.” “I will tell you, I will sing to you. But you, my child; “In July 1965, he joined the Nahal Brigade as part of the” Yael “group and after the year of training at Kibbutz Dorot was sent by the group for guidance in the Scouts troop in Hadera. With the outbreak of the Six-Day War, he felt that his place was in the target market of the nucleus, and despite the demands of the movement to stay with the campers, he reached the agriculture. When the fighting broke out, he was in the battle positions of the agriculture, and then the enemy shell hit his position and he fell; It was the second day of the fighting, on the 27th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967). He was buried in the military cemetery in Nahariya and was later transferred to the eternal military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the album “The Sharon Bloc in the Six Day War” published by his brigade headquarters, his memory was commemorated by printing his photograph. A pamphlet in his memory bearing his name was published by his friends. In the book “Bimkomim”, which was published by the Union of Kibbutzim and Kibbutzim in memory of its fallen comrades in the campaign, things were brought to its attention. In “Gogli Esh”, Volume 4 – Yalkut, the estate of the sons who fell in the Israeli army – was brought from his estate.

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