What Gets Lost : A Reading for Yizkor Fern Reiss
At yizkor , we remember our loved ones Whom we have lost .
Lost . We have lost our loved ones . There are so many things we have lost .
Our glasses . Our keys . The umbrella that used to be in that closet . 6,000 , in the Israeli War of Independence .
Our cellphones , the phone charger , the pacifier , and the small bear . In 1967 , one thousand lost , in just six days .
The dress watch . The remote control . Our place in the book . 2,500 lives in the Yom Kippur war ( three times the per capita of the Vietnam War to the US .)
Some things are lost and then found . Some are lost , and never recovered .
That pen . And one blue striped sock , in the laundry . Our feeling of belonging in the world . They say 25,000 total lost in wars . Plus many more in intifadas .
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