The family of Staff Sergeant Lee Matt, who was killed during Operation Protective Edge, are petitioning the Defense Ministry to change the wording on his tombstone to include the names of his siblings.
Staff Sergeant Li Mat, 19, from Eilat (screen capture: Channel 2)
“This campaign is a public one. Since not all immediate family members are listed on tombstones, I decided that I have to do something,” says Lee’s father, Moti, at a ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery commemorating the passage of one month since his son’s death.
The Matt family says that they did not want to disrupt the uniformity of the military cemetery by changing the size or type of the tombstone, but rather only to add to the standard text.
Lee’s sister Tal posted an animated video clip to Facebook Sunday titled “Let Me Die in Peace,” which describes the close-knit Matt family life and the petition to add the names of his three siblings to his tombstone in addition to those of his parents.
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