ANOTHER BIRTHDAY-STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF

 

  

ANOTHER BIRTHDAY

My older son Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff would have been 47 years old today.

What can a parent say on the birthday of their dead child?

A living child asks for a birthday party. 

As they become older, you, as the parent, ask them what they want for their birthday. There’s dialogue. 

It’s tradition to remember your child's birthday, to not do so ignores that they lived.

But what exactly is a parent supposed to do on the birthday of their child when he is gone?

Not gone, as in out of town or at the beach, or out of the country. Gone as in, no longer alive.

A dead child doesn’t want. 

A dead son asks for nothing.

What does a mom or dad and siblings do?

Where’s the rule book for recognizing birthdays of a dead child?

Steven was born on the first day of Fall and died on the first day of Summer. 

There is something odd to me about the the significance of the equinox and solstice in his life and its parallel meaning to the Earth. 

If the autumnal equinox represents balance, then the summer solstice was most certainly the day we felt our world come to a deafening halt on the longest day of the year.

Steven lies dead in a grave because of the negligence and indifference of those who killed him, stole his life at the age of 30, and have tried to erase that he ever lived.

I mourn what was, what could of been, and what will never be.

You deserved so much better my son, it just wasn't meant to be. 

Love, Dad 

HERSH GOLDBERG PALIN -23, ORI DANINO- 25; EDEN YERUSHALMI 24; ALMOG SARUSI-27,ALEXANDER LOBANOV-33 AND CARMEL GAT-40. ;

These are the 6 innocent Israeli hostages brutally shot to death by hamas terrorists just minutes before the Israeli Special Forces arrived to rescue them. These innocent young victims were alive and didn’t need to be murdered.They all deserved better from life and now they will never have the chance to fufill their dreams. 

Terrorists seized AMERICAN/ISRAELI Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, and four of the other hostages at a music festival in southern Israel during hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, which triggered the war. The native of Berkeley, California, lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack. In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him, his left hand missing and clearly speaking under duress, sparking new protests in Israel urging the government to do more to secure his and others’ freedom.

The army identified the other hostages as Ori Danino, 25; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Almog Sarusi, 27; and Alexander Lobanov, 33; who were also taken from the music festival. The sixth, Carmel Gat, 40, was abducted from the nearby farming community of Be’eri.

It said the bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, around a kilometer (0.6 mile) from where another hostage, Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was rescued alive last week.

Rest in peace if you can and my deepest sadness to you and your families, loved ones. All of you deserved so much better from life. Your dreams and aspirations hav been taken from you by monsters who are evil and belong in the deepest,darkest ,hottest part of hell. 

You were slaughtered simply because your Jewish and that is part of Never AGAIN IS NOW ONCE AGAIN BECOME THE HATRED OF JEWISH PEOPLE. We will never forgive and will avenge your deaths. 

May the 6 hostages Rest In Peace, if you can. My deepest sympathy for your loved ones.