The Front Lines

A Brooklyn boy joins the fight against Hitler

Si Spiegel graduated from Straubenmuller Textile High School in May 1942. May, instead of June, because the United States was at war, and so many seniors were getting their parents to sign parental consent letters when they were 17 so they could join the army after Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Si knew he would be enlisting after graduation. His fam…