Hersh grew up in this community, as a young toddler he was born in the East Bay. His first friends, his first steps were taken in Berkeley and his first prayers were uttered in this holy congregation.
It's awful, devastating. It's not the way we expected this would end. The pain they've been going through for almost eleven months was so clear and obvious and now to hear the most tragic and horrific of news for them is so sad.
We live on another planet. Anyone who is a parent or has had a parent can try to imagine the anguish and misery that John and I and all the hostage families are enduring.
His parents had made impassioned pleas for his safe return, including last month at the Democratic National Convention.
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