it hurts and is frustrating to see how much we lost
 

Yonatan standing before army truck

training, somewhere in Israel

  
  
"Yonatan, at first I thought as time would pass and as we would advance through the army we'd understand that you were a soldier like all the soldiers in Zahal. Now I know and feel that it's not like that. I made a mistake. Dafka now, your absence is felt more. The need for your skills is felt more. You have still remained, over the distance of time, the same person and officer that we thought you. And it hurts and is frustrating to see how much we lost."

Roi, one of Yonatan's soldiers, January 1998

  
  
 
       
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