Reply To: ‘Lone Soldier’

​I retract my original statement, after receiving this anonymously:

​ ‘This organization was started by the family of a “lone soldier” who was killed in a terror attack. The mission of the org. is NOT to provide meals, sox or boots to lone soldiers but rather to create a community or pseudo-family for them. When other soldiers get a much needed weekend ‘leave’, they go home to their families to decompress, vent and relax. The lone soldier goes home to their single room apt. and spends Shabbat alone in isolation. One of the goals of the org. is to provide a home away from home where they can spend Shabbat with their peers and have the support of their pseudo-family. This is not something that their real families can purchase for them or have shipped from the U.S., UK or Canada; but has been recognized as an essential need for these courageous young men and women who have volunteered to serve for Israel.’