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Thursday, July 24, 2014
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
How the army breaks the worst news of all
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTimes of Israel military reporter Mitch Ginsburg gives us the inside story on one of the IDF’s most difficult jobs- the Casualty and Wounded Soldiers Department officers whose task it is to knock on the door and inform families that they have lost a loved one in the army.
“The moment – the moment before you knock – when you hear from the other side talk, laughter, television, the crying of children, the tumult of life; that moment is the scariest moment I’ve experienced in my life,’” says one of the informers.
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