My 13-year-old son Koby and his friend Yosef Ish Ran were murdered by terrorists on May 8, 2001. It’s the yahrtzeit this week.

A silver anniversary. Silver for? No gifts here.

I’m a veteran, a vatika, whose been through it.

But I’m still going through it.

You would think that after 25 years the pain would end. After all it’s half a jubilee, or, if you are a monarch or a pope, a full jubilee.

But this time of year, I feel like I’m standing in a vat of concrete.

I’m stuck. I can breathe, but that’s about it.

I’m not saying that it doesn’t get better. Because it does.

But........

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