ABSTRACT
Grief following loss through death is considered a universal, normal human reaction and a highly individual one, which always takes place within a sociocultural context. The main change is in the emergence of many voices expressing grief and pain over the loss of a soldier within the "family of the bereaved". The attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and in Pennsylvania represent the largest act of terrorism in US history; 2,823 people were killed in New York City alone. Grief and a feeling of bereavement that emerge as a result of the trauma that comes from a continuous sense of being under attack or as a victim of "terrorism" such as is true for Israelis in the case of the Intifada and to some extent for Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 imposes additional difficulties for the bereaved, their families, and society at large.
