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A Soldier's Mother

http://israelisoldiersmother.blogspot.com/

From the time our children are born, we accept that our identity has changed. We were so many things, and continue to be. But in the moments after we give birth, and in the years that follow, we become something so much more. I have been a mother for more than 20 years, and now, as I see my oldest son enter the army of Israel, I become a soldier's mother.

• Added on: Apr 5th, 2007
• Country: Israel
• Language: English

• Author: Paula Stern
• Listed in: Family Politics
• Tags: Israel mother Middle East soldier jews son

Recent Posts

• Mental Debate:Two Sides of Fence, and a Mirror

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 02:57

  There is a debate going on in Israel now - two sides, each in agony.There are those who say Gilad Shalit has been in captivity too long. We have to do all, we owe all, to bring him home. More than three years, Hamas has gotten away with violating int...

• A Tune on the Brain

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 18:00

  It happens to everyone - you have a tune running through your brain and you keep whistling it or humming it or just hearing it over and over again. Elie was home this weekend and several times, we caught him whistling a tune. "Do you know what you ar...

• Could it be real this time?

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 15:30

  How many times can you fall for the same trick? The same lie? How many times can someone yank your cord, pull your chain? The answer is directly related to how much you care and the depth of your need. Israel as a nation keeps falling for the same pr...

• Return to Health and Responsibility

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 02:27

  Elie's back - healthy and whole. I keep looking at him to see if he seems feverish or weak. I'm getting to understand that this was probably more traumatic an experience for me than it was for Elie. He was sick...he had fever...he doesn't have fever....

• Thoughts that Break the Heart

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 10:11

  Yesterday afternoon, Elie didn't feel like eating much...a sure sign he's sick. He took a nap in the afternoon and when he woke up, he was hot, miserable, glassy-eyed.What now?When he was officially inducted to the Israeli army, his national health i...

• An Attack on Fort Hood, Understood in Israel

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 05:13

  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 ...

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Shimshon

Great and interesting site, finally not only politics, but feelings.

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