Dear friends and supporters near and far, Tomorrow we bury my dear cousin Tsachi next to beautiful Ma’ayani in Eretz Yisrael. Ma’ayan had just turned 18. Her first breaths as a young adult perhaps infusing her with a newfound sense of responsibility – bravely defended her family alongside her father. Bodily they both held the door of the shelter they were hiding in from the rampaging murderous ghouls beyond. We now know that Tsachi ultimately paid the same price as his precious first born. Tragically not before suffering the worst torment that any loving parent could ever experience on this mortal plane. Who knows what further cruelties he had to endure in captivity in those dark airless hell tunnels. Our two guardians fell protecting those they loved most of all. They are now reunited. Father and daughter. Two guardian angels protecting us still. For those of us who loved them most of all – a pain so immense. Our hearts shattered into a million shards. Our souls laden, our feet leaden, treading through the day barefoot on the splintered glass of incalculable agony and grief. We move through the day now vacillating between bouts of sobbing and silent screaming. An amalgam of red hot rage and viscous sorrow. We plunge our molten grief into the cooling waters of family, friends, community, and nation. Such is how a steely determination is tempered and forged. Our work is not yet finished. Other families are suffering. Our enlarged family, brought together through common purpose and shared pain requires our aid. Other fathers are suffering alone, caged, and in agonising pain in Gehenom’s asphyxiating torment. Other children are crying out in fear and longing for the warm embrace of familial love. We grieve. We mourn. We sob. We scream. We rend our clothes and pound our fists into the earth at the senselessness of it all. Then we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and rejoin the fight. For Tsachi. For Ma’ayan. For Guy. For all those we lost on that grim seventh of ten and all those since. Be not afraid – guardian angels watch over us. Thank you to all of you who have walked alongside us. Who have stood with us throughout. We feel your embrace across continents and seas. We see your light guide us through the dark. Though there are cracks in our hearts, that’s how the light gets in. Thank you for shining so bright. Love, Adam and Heidi