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In the time of War!

I don't know. I don't know where to start, what to write about. There are too many things going on right now. Let me tackle them one at a time.  It all started with the war. I was at work, seeing a patient and a warning sounded on my phone. I assumed(hoped) it was another one of those test messages and continued seeing my patient.  Then my phone rang. I completed my examination and saw that my wife was calling. I advised the patient and called my wife back after having seen the alert(it was not a test message). There was a hint of panic in her voice as we discussed the alarm on the phone.  I asked her to collect our son(he was playing in his friend's house on a lower floor - it was a Saturday morning) and go to the groundfloor. As we were speaking, she said, “They've bombed, they are attacking.” The panic also travelled through the phone but I did not want to show it yet. I repeated my words and asked her to collect our son and head to the groundfloor.  I excused mys...