The Ultimate Pain Photo Gallery by Abba Richman at pbase.com

The Ultimate Pain

Israel is the only country in the world that has a National Remembrance day for it's fallen soldiers where the whole nation stands in silence. Sirens sound at 8 pm and again at 11am. Nearly 24,000 soldiers have fallen since Israel's War of Independence in 1948. All military graves are the same, only the inscriptions are different. These photographs were taken at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl military cemetery in 2005.

remembering a fallen brother...	...a comarade
...a friend		...a brother
			The grave of Eitan Newman, I knew him since he was a baby
...remembering a fallen comrade			...a sister
		Yizkor

...a brother
...a son

	...a bereaved mother

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Donna		02-May-2006 22:23
Beautiful, touching photos. However, the count of over 22,000 fallen soldiers does not begin in 1948 with the war of independence. If Arutz 7 is a reliable source, then I will just quote them for you: "The count begins in 1860, the year the first Jerusalem neighborhood was built outside the walls of the Old City. That year also marks the founding of the Jewish Company for the Settlement of the Holy Land. The first victim on the list is Aharon Hershler, who was killed on Jan. 1, 1873, when murderous Arabs burst into his house. He is buried in the Mt. of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem. The number of fallen soldiers is less than three days' worth of victims in Auschwitz. It includes those who fell before the establishment of the State in 1948 from the Bar-Giora, Nili, HaShomer, Haganah, Palmach, Etzel and Lechi military organizations. The number does not include those who fell in terrorist attacks, although they too are remembered on this day.

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