YOM HA ZIKARON, REMEMBERANCE DAY

I don't know about you, but all of a sudden Spring crept up on me. There I was just getting ready to hibernate a bit and Pessach is over, Yom HaShoah is over and tonight is Rememberance Day for our fallen soldiers and terror victims.

In case you don't know, Israel is a magnificent country. And even though we do have our moments of shame, we have our hours of glory.

Since I moved here in 1970...wow 1970...unfortunately, I too have lost friends through war and terrorist attacks. They are never forgotten.

Tonight at 8:00 there will be a siren and the entire country will stand at attention remembering our lost friends and neighbours. Tomorrow morning there will be another siren and the cemeteries will be filled with families going to visit the graves of their loved ones.

I live up the street from Har Herzl...Mount Herzl. The streets will be blocked by cars and busses making their way to the Military Cemetery. It is beyond sad.

For twenty-four hours the television will broadcast stories of soldiers who lost their lives defending us.

The members of the Knesset will be speaking at various ceremonies...talking about their own lost comrads.

Twenty-four hours of special music on the radio. Twenty-four hours of the names of each and every person lost being read out loud on one of the television channels. We never forget.

It is good to remember. It is good to honour our fallen. It is beyond difficult emotionally to survive the next twenty-four hours.

May not one more name be added to the long, long list.

Have a good day...stay safe...and thanks for dropping in.