Fort Hood From An Israeli’s Point Of View

Click link below to visit a great blog: Israeli Soldier’s Mother: http://israelisoldiersmother.blogspot.com/2009/11/attack-on-fort-hood-understood-in.html Sunday November 8, 2010 Last night, we all ate dinner at my daughter’s house. It was supposed to be a quiet Friday night with only two of my five children home (Elie, my soldier, and my youngest daughter). It was going to be quiet and lonely in some ways. When you are used to having five children grace your table, there’s a lot of noise. Then one got married, one went to the army, one went to yeshiva, and suddenly, there is an almost unbearable quiet. It’s silly, of course. Don’t most families in America have two children and feel their lives are full? But I guess life is indeed one of perspectives and the sudden emptying of my house and Shabbat table has come as a bit of a surprise. Still, they come home enough that we…