Remembering Israel's Fallen Heroes - Short

there are at least two dimensions or two levels as I see it to what memory is really all about there's memory as don't forget I remember what happened I remember this person I remember that day or that event or that special time it's still in my memory it's still a part of my collective consciousness but there's something much deeper so here a memory is being in touch with Who I am as a result of who either that person was or that event was we're talking about social memory we were talking about national memory that it's not just enough for us to remember our personal story but it's crucially important for us to remember the Jewish story and the Jewish narrative [Music] in 1998 my firstborn aurilla an officer in Surat Kalani was killed in the battlefield of Lebanon my second Sonny liras 32 years old a father of four little children was killed fighting terrorists in the Gaza Strip you know to bury two children it's not normal for what my children have fallen or the Jewish people around the world we are together even you didn't fought with us we are together in this dream the memoral day is for all the Jewish people and everyone he need to ask himself how I can be deserving these children they died for us remembering today is a very sacred day here in Israel for two minutes during the day the whole country stands still there sirens no one speaks no one walks cars are parked and we remember our fallen and we need to Jews all around the world to be part of this huge thing to be together because we are one people any Jew is my brother when they hurt I hurt when a boy falls here it's their boy also and we need to make this connection because we are one people you