Naomi,
I know we are on the outside looking in, not your inner circle of friends and loved ones but we are thinking of you daily.
When we moved to efrat and you were ending your park days, mine just beginning I began watching you from the outside then. I admired your parenting, so relaxed and calm. Not letting your kids get you worked up, you just did your thing and had a great dynamic.
The Perry girls always admiring the older cousins, looking up to them, repeating their words.
I remember hearing the legendary story of Roe escaping gan.
Along the way I definitely missed his glow-up into a young man. Seeing the photos and hearing the stories of who he became were truly moving. I never wanted his friends to stop speaking so I can only imagine how you feel hanging onto every word that comes your way.
The other day I composed this message bc I heard Hall of Fame on the radio. Needless to say I had to pull over bc the tears didn’t stop.
Living in efrat over the many Yom Hazikaron ceremonies I realized that our children know the fallen heroes of the community, their stories, the details, the battles we lost them in. I began to understand that it is our responsibility to make sure the world is going to know their names. Each loss is a whole world lost, Roe will never be forgotten. I want to promise you our family will be part of honoring his memory forever. We will feel his loss.
He went the distance and ran the mile and none of it will be lost on us, the community, the nation.
💜
Danielle