Every civilian who now visits the military cemeteries is met with many tombstones bearing the names of the fallen, but many times the names remain anonymous, and over the years the warrior's story disappears, certainly to those who did not know him personally.
He can search for information on the site he will remember if he really wants to, but many times other than a short text he will not really know the life story of the space.
Most families are accompanied by worry that the story of Yakiran's life and fall will be forgotten and disappear from the world with them.
A new initiative by the Golani Association seeks to rectify this situation through special barcodes that will be placed on the tombs of the division's casualties. A scan of the barcodes will lead to a dedicated website where the family members of the fallen can upload their memory of their son - videos, press clippings, things written about him and his memory, songs he wrote and more. The site will be able to be used, even remotely, as a unique memorial site for each and every one of them and will be part of the brigade's memorial and heritage center at Golani Junction.
This is an initiative led by Col. Varda Pomeranz, Daniel's mother, who fell in the ADF incident in Sajaiya in Operation Eitan. Pomeranz was an IDF casualty officer, served as an officer in the Golani Brigade during the Jewish War and is currently responsible for commemorating and strengthening ties with the bereaved families in the Golani Association. Today, 1,480 designated sites are ready for all of the division's casualties, and an initial pilot has begun of placing the barcodes on a number of graves. The goal is at the end of the process to place a barcode on all the tombs of the division casualties. The Golani Association has now begun a fundraising campaign to expand the association's activities for the welfare of the fighters, the inheritance of the heritage and the commemoration of the fallen - with one of the goals being to fund the barcode project.
"One of the significant and important things for bereaved families is the memory and commemoration of their fallen loved ones. A commemoration that will be preserved forever, a true and living commemoration, that will tell the story of Yakiran's life and downfall. "Golani and Laoram will continue to educate future generations of warriors. This venture gives bereaved families a little peace of mind knowing that they will finally be able to tell their son's story as they chose, fully, experientially and interactively, a story that everyone can remember forever," says Pomeranz.
At the moment, the exciting project is unique to the Golani Brigade, but Pomeranz hopes that in the future every fallen fighter will receive such a commemoration, a wish that every Israeli can assume can be a partner in.
"Sometimes dreams come true and that is how I feel about our commemoration of the Golani casualties. My big dream is that this project will become an integral part of the commemoration of all IDF casualties.
I hope that the commemoration of the Golani Brigade casualties will be the first step so that every IDF space will have a barcode of this kind that will be placed on his grave or wherever the family chooses, and will tell the story of each fall not only to family friends and relatives .
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