Abstract
Greenspoon ponders on the meaning of the verse "Am I my brother's keeper?" The first person to utter this question, Cain (in Genesis 4:9), more than likely expected, or at least hoped for, an answer in the negative. It is clear, though, that readers of the Bible are intended to respond in the positive. In contemporary society at least, the appropriate response to this eternal query is decidedly more mixed. A more expansive is the definition of brother that encompasses those to whom people have no blood relationship, as in a Newsday story titled "My Brother's Keeper: A Long Island Veteran Makes Sure a Brother in Arms Is Buried with Dignity." This account narrates the efforts of veterans to provide an appropriate burial for a Korean War-era veteran who had died "penniless and long separated from his family."