Here’s how one of the littlest ex-hostages is doing:
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A very touching video — 15 Comments
Good for her. Parents obviously make a big difference in how a child is raised. How many pics have we seen of Palestinians holding a child who is holding and/or firing an AK47?
Just to augment this post with the feel-good story of the day…
“The ice swimmer: Why Tom Heyerdahl carved a 25-metre swim lane in the frozen Ottawa River;
” ‘It’s a renewal, a restart. It works well for those who struggle with mania and high energy’ “— https://nationalpost.com/feature/the-ice-swimmer/wcm/ff913b0b-9ca3-4788-8ccb-96c5b216b462
Grafs:
‘…“When my wife (Martha) was dying, she was grieving about how we would be grieving,” Heyerdahl says of life after death for himself and their now 29-year-old daughter, Valerie. “I looked her straight in the eye and said ‘I will survive you.’ That was my promise to her, that I would be there for our adult child and that I wasn’t going anywhere.”
‘The healing took time. When Martha passed away in 2016 due to complications from endometrial cancer, Heyerdahl was a self-admitted couch potato.
‘ An elementary school teacher, he’s on medical disability and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The mere idea of stepping out the door was a challenge….”
I frequently see ads on YouTube designed as heart-tugging “Help the poor Gazan Palestinians” ads.
They make me angry.
Neo, they couldn’t have hurt me more. And now I want to get back at them. Do you think I’m joking? Never ber against the Sailor in a bar fight
They made a mistake. They said they love death. Like that makes them strong. If you don’t mind my lady fuck them
I’m not crying. *You’re* crying!
In 1967, after the 6 Day War, James Michener wrote an article for Look or Life titled “Israel, a Nation too Young to Die”. It could have been titled, then or now, “Israel: A Nation too Good to Die”.
Something that always amazes me is the sheer resilience of children when they have support and love. I wonder, however, at what point in their lives the cockroaches will come out of the woodwork, and they will begin to have to address the issues of their trauma and loss when they are more mature mentally. It may take twenty years or more.
I wonder how the Fogel kids are doing — on March 11 is the anniversary of the attack, which took place in Itamar in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Itamar_attack
“…that always amazes…”
Indeed, but also the power of genes.
Aunt and niece show a remarkable resemblance….
Children aren’t as resilient as you may imagine. They need to be cherished and protected. It’s a myth that you can do whatever to children.
I believe it’s a lie some people tell themselves because they have to
It’s a paradox, isn’t it. On the one hand we have laws against child abuse. Yet we tell ourselves chicken are resilient
Steve57:
I think very few people believe children are resilient no matter what. They are often resilient, however, after trauma, if they are given lots of love and support. In the video it’s clear that these children are receiving that love and support – which doesn’t mean there won’t be lingering repercussions from their terrible experiences. But they probably will be strong enough to have good lives nevertheless, because of the strong and loving family that is now raising them.
Resilient children:
I was chargé d’affaires (in charge of the embassy in the absence of the ambassador) of our embassy in a west African capital in the seventies when the country was invaded by a mercenary group. It was a difficult time for us (fortunately only lasted a few days) because the telephones had been cut by the local government, and with a very limited embassy staff I was trying to accomplish two things as soon as I heard the shooting and explosions: account for the safety of all American citizens and report to Washington.
Anyway, the point of this story is that I had instructed all official Americans to stay at home and use the embassy radio net to keep in contact. I was at home too, (why go into the office when the only person there was a communicator?) and was telling my kids what they were hearing: “that’s an HK, that’s a 9mm pistol, that’s an AK-47, that’s an anti-tank rocket” all based on distinctive sounds of the various weapons (and yes, they do sound different.)
And as I was trying to sort out official business (it was a Sunday) and take care of the family at the same time, I told the kids to stay under the dinner table because I thought it was the only place in the house that would be safe from breaking glass if we were hit by something. We still didn’t know, after all, who had invaded or what their intentions were.
Then I got back to calling all the official Americans one after another and asking them to check on any non-official citizens they knew. It was a few hours of intense radio back-and-forth, and at one point I was listening to a report from one of our officers when I heard a loud noise in the street outside our house. Still on the radio, I spun and called out “what was that?”
My six year old daughter yelled back “it’s nothing, Dad, just an AK-47.” Talk about sang froid! Kids are very tough.
Ok. I lose. Children are tough. If you don’t mind I’ll keep acting like they’re nott.
Child soldiers can’t be rehabilitated
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Good for her. Parents obviously make a big difference in how a child is raised. How many pics have we seen of Palestinians holding a child who is holding and/or firing an AK47?
Just to augment this post with the feel-good story of the day…
“The ice swimmer: Why Tom Heyerdahl carved a 25-metre swim lane in the frozen Ottawa River;
” ‘It’s a renewal, a restart. It works well for those who struggle with mania and high energy’ “—
https://nationalpost.com/feature/the-ice-swimmer/wcm/ff913b0b-9ca3-4788-8ccb-96c5b216b462
Grafs:
‘…“When my wife (Martha) was dying, she was grieving about how we would be grieving,” Heyerdahl says of life after death for himself and their now 29-year-old daughter, Valerie. “I looked her straight in the eye and said ‘I will survive you.’ That was my promise to her, that I would be there for our adult child and that I wasn’t going anywhere.”
‘The healing took time. When Martha passed away in 2016 due to complications from endometrial cancer, Heyerdahl was a self-admitted couch potato.
‘ An elementary school teacher, he’s on medical disability and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The mere idea of stepping out the door was a challenge….”
I frequently see ads on YouTube designed as heart-tugging “Help the poor Gazan Palestinians” ads.
They make me angry.
Neo, they couldn’t have hurt me more. And now I want to get back at them. Do you think I’m joking? Never ber against the Sailor in a bar fight
They made a mistake. They said they love death. Like that makes them strong. If you don’t mind my lady fuck them
I’m not crying. *You’re* crying!
In 1967, after the 6 Day War, James Michener wrote an article for Look or Life titled “Israel, a Nation too Young to Die”. It could have been titled, then or now, “Israel: A Nation too Good to Die”.
Something that always amazes me is the sheer resilience of children when they have support and love. I wonder, however, at what point in their lives the cockroaches will come out of the woodwork, and they will begin to have to address the issues of their trauma and loss when they are more mature mentally. It may take twenty years or more.
I wonder how the Fogel kids are doing — on March 11 is the anniversary of the attack, which took place in Itamar in 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Itamar_attack
“…that always amazes…”
Indeed, but also the power of genes.
Aunt and niece show a remarkable resemblance….
Children aren’t as resilient as you may imagine. They need to be cherished and protected. It’s a myth that you can do whatever to children.
I believe it’s a lie some people tell themselves because they have to
It’s a paradox, isn’t it. On the one hand we have laws against child abuse. Yet we tell ourselves chicken are resilient
Steve57:
I think very few people believe children are resilient no matter what. They are often resilient, however, after trauma, if they are given lots of love and support. In the video it’s clear that these children are receiving that love and support – which doesn’t mean there won’t be lingering repercussions from their terrible experiences. But they probably will be strong enough to have good lives nevertheless, because of the strong and loving family that is now raising them.
Resilient children:
I was chargé d’affaires (in charge of the embassy in the absence of the ambassador) of our embassy in a west African capital in the seventies when the country was invaded by a mercenary group. It was a difficult time for us (fortunately only lasted a few days) because the telephones had been cut by the local government, and with a very limited embassy staff I was trying to accomplish two things as soon as I heard the shooting and explosions: account for the safety of all American citizens and report to Washington.
Anyway, the point of this story is that I had instructed all official Americans to stay at home and use the embassy radio net to keep in contact. I was at home too, (why go into the office when the only person there was a communicator?) and was telling my kids what they were hearing: “that’s an HK, that’s a 9mm pistol, that’s an AK-47, that’s an anti-tank rocket” all based on distinctive sounds of the various weapons (and yes, they do sound different.)
And as I was trying to sort out official business (it was a Sunday) and take care of the family at the same time, I told the kids to stay under the dinner table because I thought it was the only place in the house that would be safe from breaking glass if we were hit by something. We still didn’t know, after all, who had invaded or what their intentions were.
Then I got back to calling all the official Americans one after another and asking them to check on any non-official citizens they knew. It was a few hours of intense radio back-and-forth, and at one point I was listening to a report from one of our officers when I heard a loud noise in the street outside our house. Still on the radio, I spun and called out “what was that?”
My six year old daughter yelled back “it’s nothing, Dad, just an AK-47.” Talk about sang froid! Kids are very tough.
Ok. I lose. Children are tough. If you don’t mind I’ll keep acting like they’re nott.
Child soldiers can’t be rehabilitated