Remembering Miracles and Tragedy Aboard Flight 232
A survivor relives forty minutes that changed his life forever
“Blessed is the One who performed a miracle for me in this place.”
Yisroel Brownstein, a 40-year-old clinical psychologist, could barely make it through the words of the blessing as he stood in a cornfield in Sioux City, Iowa, last July. Thirty-one years earlier, the then nine-year-old boy lay in the same cornfield, alone, hovering close to death.
He was not alone now. On the day when Yisroel’s life shattered to pieces along with the DC 10 he was riding, he made a friend who would stand by him through the difficult years that followed: Rabbi