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Chen, Millie

Chen, Millie


Daughter of Tagit and Rani. She was born on 18.7.1979 (23 Tammuz 5739). “Our Millie was born as a birthday gift to her sister, Neri,” her parents say. “She was born exactly on the same date and at the same time, and since then we’ve had a double birthday for both girls.” Until the age of three, Milly grew up in Kibbutz Ramot Menashe, when the family moved to Sapir in the Arava, and when she was nine she moved with her family to the nearby Paran moshav. Milly attended elementary school and the Shitim Regional High School. She completed her studies with very high achievements and enrolled in psychology studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, studies that were to begin at the end of her military service. As a child, Millie loved to play various board games (monopoly, ladders and ropes, etc.), gardening, painting and painting. In high school she found great interest in her studies and read books a lot. She read spiritual books, such as the Alchemist and the Celestial Prophecy, but also novels with great pleasure. Because of her caring, she served as the chairman of the student council in her 11th grade school and was very active in protecting students’ rights. In the same spirit of involvement and caring, she was a member of Greenpeace, a member of the Greenpeace organization, whose current publications were identified with the organization’s goals. “Unfortunately,” her parents say, “we learned about the disaster many hours late and did not fulfill her wish to donate from her organs. “Milly was a sharp and intelligent girl with a strong opinion on many issues, but she was attentive to different opinions, and loved to sharpen her thinking about difficult dilemmas. She liked to buy presents for friends and family, and she put a lot of attention into it-she chose pages Reporters special and put softly strung and decorated. She liked to buy scented candles, booklets or little dolls and cute. Especially love the character of Winnie the Pooh, bedding, erasers, a sharpener, stickers and more … During her short life was enough Milli travel abroad several times. She was in the Summer School in England, on a family trip to Europe, and as part of a youth delegation from her school visited Poland. At the end of the twelfth grade, she made a romance with Shahar, her classmate, and became a love story, and she was the happiest in her life. Mili’s connections with people were unique. She always shared her immediate family with everything she went through. She had close and meaningful ties with the entire extended family, and the members also noted the support she was able to give, the encouragement and the love she lavished. Every conversation with her was characterized by a lot of sincerity, openness and humor, but also serious thought and a descent into the depth of things when necessary. In March 1998, Milly joined the IDF and served in the Intelligence Research Division of Tel Aviv, where she lived in a rented apartment in Tel Aviv, and returned to her home in the Arava on weekends. : “We got to know that you were a soldier with great sensitivity, a lot of common sense and very responsible. First and foremost, you were a pleasant personality and a good friend. You were always concerned about what was going on around you, you treated yourself personally to all your friends in the industry, and you took care of the room almost like home. You have done your job in the best possible way, you knew how to invest, to initiate and to think ahead. Every task assigned to you was done very thoroughly and quickly, and your professionalism was”On July 22, 1999, when she made her way to Kibbutz Nachsholim, where her grandparents live, Milly was killed in a road accident by a driver who crossed the railroad tracks while the checkpoint was lowered and the lights flickered. She was twenty years old. She was laid to rest in the Kfar Faran cemetery. At the age of 13, she wrote: “Why do Israel have a lot of road accidents?” You’ve already asked yourself this question … I too … And the answer is that the Israelis do not have the patience. To other people, when they can take a place on their own, and when someone gives a break and behaves legally, they chuckle him and press him, we are one people, we are not strangers, we are friends, only a small country! ” When she was in 12th grade, Milly wrote an essay on road accidents, which analyzes the effects of road accidents – the emotional impact on those involved in the accident, their relatives and friends, the economic impact on those involved in the accident and the economic and demographic impact on the country. “There are other aspects and effects of road accidents, but I have chosen to mention only some of them in this article, in an attempt to emphasize how serious road accidents and their consequences are, and how important it is to avoid them and be more polite on the road. From anywhere else. “In the eulogy for Milly, Orit, her educator, said,” My daughter. ” Keon: “You symbolized for me the balance created by the pendulum that moves between two poles: you, the strong man, but also the person who feels. You are so decisive but also considerate, listening and examining. “Four days before Mili’s death, she and her sister, the parents and friends of the two celebrated their birthday together, and this was the last time they saw Milly.” What we received Mili and will always stay with us, “say family members,” is to know love, to know give, to smile a lot, to hug hard, to help the environment, to think. She’s sorely missing us. “

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