My son was an exchange student in Israel. He joined the Youth Army and trained right with the regular troops. He and 5 others were sent to the border to mend fences. They stayed right in the Army camp with the troops.
The day after the 6 of them went back to school, that area was attacked. The leader at that station was called “pops.”
He was all of 24 years old.
Everyone they knew stationed there was killed. He said that the area was so peaceful a serene, that he found it so hard to believe that such evil could happen there.
It affected him so profoundly that he joined the US army and trained as a medic. CIA and NSA tried to get him to join the ranks as a spook. He turned them down.
That is very moving. I wish I was there to support them but I suppose I would be pretty worthless, just a dumb old lady