{"id":39530,"date":"2015-04-28T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=39530"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:39:17","slug":"one-fallen-soldier-23-descendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/one-fallen-soldier-23-descendants\/","title":{"rendered":"One Fallen Soldier, 23 Descendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day before Yom Hazikaron, the <em>New York Times<\/em> published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/22\/world\/middleeast\/one-israeli-soldier-23-namesakes-and-a-day-of-remembrance.html\">this story<\/a> about one of Israel\u2019s fallen soldiers. Gil\u2019ad, an only child, was a lieutenant killed during the Yom Kippur War. A talented musician, he was given the opportunity to serve in the army\u2019s music division, but instead joined a combat unit with his friends, according to his mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">\u201cHe said, \u2018If anything happens to them and I\u2019m in the entertainment corps, I\u2019ll feel terrible,\u2019 \u201d she recalled. \u201c \u2018I\u2019ll get to be 35, I\u2019ll be a bad husband, a bad father, a bad driver.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">He did not get to be 35, of course.<\/p>\n<p>After he was killed, an acquaintance of his mother wanted to name her child in his honor; after that, the naming snowballed: his commanding officer\u2019s son, other relatives and the members of his unit followed suit. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/22\/world\/middleeast\/one-israeli-soldier-23-namesakes-and-a-day-of-remembrance.html\">article<\/a>, 23 babies on three different continents were named after him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">The namesakes of the Gil\u2019ad who died in the Yom Kippur War include a professor in London \u201cwho became interested in Yiddish theater,\u201d the mother said, and a nephew of hers in the United States. One grew up on Gil\u2019ad\u2019s father\u2019s kibbutz and now lives in a Jerusalem suburb, and another \u2014 her brother\u2019s grandson \u2014 is in the Israeli bedroom community of Beit Shemesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">There are girls named for Gil\u2019ad, too \u2014 one called Gili is studying hotel management, and another, Geulah, is \u201ca brilliant attorney,\u201d the original Gil\u2019ad\u2019s mother said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The short article is a potent reminder of the bonds that hold Israeli society together. Even though soldiers in Israel die, they are never forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day before Yom Hazikaron, the New York Times published this story about one of Israel\u2019s fallen soldiers. Gil\u2019ad, an only child, was a lieutenant killed during the Yom Kippur War. 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