During the early 1900 the draw to secularism was so great that even learned yeshiva students became irreligious. The only question is why did they refer to their great great grandfather as the Chofetz Chaim and not R’ Yisroel Meir Kagan. It could be the great great grandchild used R’ Yisroel Meir Kagan name and it just wasn’t retold that way.
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