Mourning Ehud and Eldad

July 17, 2008 - 6:56 AM by Jessica · 7 Comments
Filed under: A New Reality, General

Yesterday and today are times in which I can’t ignore the news, blithely continuing on with my own life and concerns. The return of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev’s bodies to their families and to the country set off a spate of mourning for Israelis, as we all hoped against hope that they would possibly, maybe, still be alive.

One can only imagine what their families are going through now, their parents, siblings, Ehud Goldwasser’s wife, Karnit, as they begin the formal mourning process of saying goodbye to Ehud and Eldad. But they’re not in this alone.

The whole country, nay, many in the world around them, are mourning with them. From the synagogues holding special yizkor services for them, to the many people — strangers to the family — who will attend the funerals, make comments on Facebook groups and those of us who just get lost in thought while listening to the radio, watching their images on television or reading the accounts in the newspapers, we are thinking about these men and these families and what they have lost.

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