•
and glass from the window
pane fell on my two-year son,
Assaf. I came in and took him
out of bed. He was just scrat-
ched a bit. We had the win-
dow fixed in the morning and
now I just want to forget
about it."
Things at the Metulla Com-
munity Center are always
tense. There is an exit from
the auditorium to a shelter
which has a fully equipped
field hospital with facilities
for treating 10 casualties
simultaneously. Teenagers
hold disco parties in the
shelter, which is decorated
with a parachute hung from
the ceiling. Sadly, the
parachute held one of the
flares used by terrorists who
crossed the border and attack-
ed a neighboring army camp,
killing six soldiers and woun-
dig seven. On the shelter's
walls are gloomy paintings in
dark shades, expressing the
fear of the town's youth. One
depicts a man pointing a gun,
with an open gate, a fence and
a dark background.
In Kibbutz Misgav Am, pre-
school children, imitate the
sounds of warning alarms in
their play. One child calls out
the security • alert word and
all the children hide under
blankets. The little boys love
to shoot. Ben Gido, five, ex-
presses his fears in accurate
drawings of helicopters and
battle scenes.
The ingrained tension that
comes from years of living
under stress always surfaces.
Ella Gafeen recalls, "We went
back to the States to visit my
sister on the Fourth of July,
with all the firewords. I took
my four year old daughter,
who was very uneasy, to the
window to show her there was
nothing wrong and explained,
`Rachel, I could understand
when you were at the kibbutz
with all the katyushas, but
there's nothing to worry
about here! She replied, 'I'm
not worried on the kibbutz.
We have shelters there! "
Like so many idealistic nor-
thern residents, Ella Gafeen
won't be frightened away, no
matter how bad things get.
"Once we were at a singalong
in Kiryat Shmona," she says.
"All of a sudden we heard
background music!' The army
began to assemble and the
security forces suggested we
return home. We understood
exactly what was going on.
Fifteen hundred people stood
up, singing a song of peace
and walked to the buses,
knowing they were returning
to kibbutzim which were
under bombardment!' For
border residents, these kind of
things are simply a fact of
life. ❑
World Zionist Press Service
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