The voice on the other end was strong and it was resolute, sounding far younger than its 84 years. Benjamin Berger was sitting inside his home in Cleveland, speaking to a reporter on the telephone, the same home in which another phone call 30 years before had changed his world forever.
“Olympic years like this one, sometimes they are the hardest for me, for all of our family,” said Berger, a doctor who specialized in internal medicine and whose son, David, was one of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September on Sept. 5, 1972. “But they are also, in some ways, the most important. Because that is when people tend to remember what happened in Munich. That is when the phone rings again. And it’s good that people remember David and the other 10 athletes.”
Berger actually managed a small laugh here.
“It makes me feel good that people remember my son.”
