This Weekend at KSS - May 22nd - 24th

No services in honor of Memorial Day

For Memorial Day from Kol Haneshemah: Shabbat Vehagim (A Reconstructionist Prayerbook)

The Young Dead Soldiers

The young dead soldiers do not speak.

Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses.

(Who has not heard them?)

The have a silence that speaks for them at night

And when the clock counts.

They say,

We were young.  We have died.  Remember us.

They say,

We have done what we could

But until it is finished it is not done. 

They say,

We have given our lives

But until it is finished no one can know what our lives gave.

They say,

Our deaths are not ours,

They are yours,

They will mean what you make of them.

They say,

Whether our lives or our deaths were for peace and a new hope

Or for nothing

We cannot say.

It is you who must say this.

They say,

We leave you our deaths.

Give them their meaning.

Give them an end to war and a true peace,

Give them a victory that ends the war and a peace afterwards,

Give them their meaning.

We were young, they say.

We have dies.

Remember us.

-Achibald MacLeish

Please note:  Yizkor service will be held on Tuesday, May 26th at 11am
Please bring photos and/or stories of loved ones to share.