Remember, today: Yom HaSho'ah, Yom HaZikaron, Yom Ha'Atzma'utּ

Sadness and joy,
drizzling sunbeams,
remember, remember,
and fill your soul with memories you never witnessed;





Remember, remember,
join yourself up again to the
massive Whole.










Grieve, shed tears,
make room for the darkness
of the families, children destroyed forever,
though they were never your children.







Remember the blood-stained uniforms,
the smell of explosions and darkness and death,
though it was not your nose
that smelled them.





And remember the joy,
fireworks and flags,
elation and trepidation,
fighting fiercely, joyfully for your lives -
though it was not you
who fought, whose heart rejoiced.




To be one of the Nation,
to be one with the Nation,
my mind must remember,
my soul must remember.






To be a soul holding hands
with those before and those after,
with those beside me and those far away,
I must remember.
We must remember.





Taste the joy,
the fear, the darkness,
the light, the death,
the throngs of jubilant rejoicers and
the full, silent cemeteries
in the moments of silence.
Remember the stories.
Remember today.

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* Pictures 1, 2, 6 & 7 are of the Gush Katif Human Chain, and are from this site. There are more wonderful pictures there; go and look!
* Picture 3 comes from this page.
* Picture 4 comes from this page.
* I'm not sure where I got Picture 5 from.