Grandpa Katz, full of years, stepped up to the readers' platform in synagogue on Memorial Day. He touched the Torah scroll with the corner of his prayer shawl and kissed it, as is customary. Then reading a passage, he honored the ancient injunction to pass on the Lord's commandments, as the Bible says: "And ye shall teach them to your children, talking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way."