By Ryan Whirty, Contributing writer
In September 1972, Tulane graduate David Berger was living his dream. A diminutive but strapping weightlifter, Berger was in Munich as part of the Israeli Olympic team.
Unfortunately, on the first day in Munich, Berger narrowly missed the cut to move on to the next level of competition. Then came the nightmare.
On Sept. 5, in an act of terrorism that shocked and frightened the world, members of the Palestinian group Black September took those 11 Israeli citizens hostage and massacred all of them, including Berger.
The Tulane community reacted with stunned sadness.