From The Diary of Alex Singer

         Once in a while
         As I progress towards the course’s end,
          I feel a pang of fear.

         Today I felt such fear.

         If the war comes
         When the war comes
         I will have to lead men to die

         But those men were not men a short time ago
         Some don’t even shave yet
         And I will have to have the calm power
         to yell to them
         or to whisper

         Kadima.

         And,
         I will have to have the calm power
         to step forward myself.
 

Alex Singer, a platoon commander, was killed with two other soldiers
when his Givati brigade was attacked in the security zone in Lebanon.
Alex died while trying to save his commanding officer.
 
 

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