RobinRS I know what you say is true. Life for me has never been like that so this is all so new to me. Always seeing the news about Israel was scary to me but it was "far away". Of course, my concern for Israel has changed as I have gotten older.
But, even here at home, in cities like where you grew up, growing up was much different. It is very foreign to me. It makes one look at the world so differently.