tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post3783508698713005057..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: The BereavedYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-84160402366876862922011-01-23T21:49:38.055+02:002011-01-23T21:49:38.055+02:00This is an amazing post. Very moving and thought p...This is an amazing post. Very moving and thought provoking. Thank you.sparrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05813281777476012154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-82342044604230849112011-01-22T04:46:46.634+02:002011-01-22T04:46:46.634+02:00Surviving beloved ones is bad enough; loosing a ch...Surviving beloved ones is bad enough; loosing a child is — I do not even have a proper word for it. Parents just should not need to walk away from their child's grave. Yet it seems that even this dolour can get better. One does not even have to forget the dead. I would not have believed it a year or three after, though, it was just beyond my imagination.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-39851079202645225162011-01-20T23:35:37.227+02:002011-01-20T23:35:37.227+02:00Yaacov,
Thank you very much for posting this -- i...Yaacov,<br /><br />Thank you very much for posting this -- it is profoundly moving.<br /><br />I lost a childhood friend in the Yom Kippur war. By the time his family made aliyah we were not very close, so the grief was nothing like it would have been for a family member. Nevertheless, I find myself thinking of him more and more with the years. I find it especially poignant that I am now in my mid-fifties while he only lived to 19. Thucydides said that war is unnatural because in the natural order of things sons bury fathers but in war fathers bury sons. I suppose that the same could be said of the traffic accident that killed the Arab man's son.<br /><br />David E. SigetiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com