This Yom HaZikaron feels different. Last May, our embassy family joined the ranks of bereaved families of victims of terror attacks.
Our friends, Sarah Milgrim z"l and Yaron Lischinsky z"l, were murdered outside an event for young diplomats. They were at their prime, in love and in their professional element.
This memorial day, and every day, we stand with their families, joining them in mourning.
Their absence is everywhere - in the empty seats where they should be, in the conversations we still expect to have, in the spring days they should have been here to enjoy.
May their memory be a blessing.