It had seemed like such a good idea, after 37 days of tears by myself in Charlotte. The families of the hostages had been on every network begging us to help, and aside from writing furiously on facebook, processing my emotions, going over Israel's history, explaining and explaining and explaining, I felt like I was bleeding out for Mark Zuckerberg and not getting anywhere - or any better. It only took a few days post October 7th for me to think, "Do I need to go to Israel t
