Whatever it is about decadal anniversaries, they seem to affect everyone. Hence today’s commemoration of Israel’s Yom Kippur War when the Syrians, etc. attacked a few hours after sundown and into the high holy day.
It was a near thing, especially in the Golan Heights, where the relic hulks of a few destroyed Syrian and Israeli tanks remain at strategic points on the landscape as permanent reminders.
Snoopy the Goon’s preferred reminder is Lu Yehi (May it be): “…written by our late and much beloved Naomi Shemer 40 years ago, during the war, is part of our collective inheritance and is forever associated with that war.”
Go there and listen. Here are the lyrics in English.
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| There is still a white sail on the horizon Opposite a heavy black cloud All that we ask for – may it be And if in the evening windows May it be, may it be – Please – may it be What is the sound that I hear If only there can be heard within all this May it be… Within a small, shaded neighborhood This is the end of summer, the end of the path May it be… And if suddenly, rising from the darkness Then grant tranquility and also grant strength May it be…
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May you have an easy fast tonight and tomorrow as you think of these things.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 