The Bullet Is Still in My Pocket

Description

All the events and characters in this story are merely images conjured by my imagination. The author of this story is neither a historian nor a journalist. Even when addressing general national events, he relies on his imagination, free from any connection to reality. All the world’s stories that emerged from the years of war or from great national revolutions did not depict reality but were imaginative creations inspired by it. Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Bardlian’s The Three Musketeers, and the James Bond stories are not recounting historical events but are inspired by historical reality.

I say this so that no one judges me by the scales of reality, but only by the scales of my imagination.

I wrote this story in two stages. I wrote it first, before the October War, and stopped at the stage of the War of Attrition battles. This stage was published under the title “One Bullet in My Pocket.” After October 6th, I wrote the second stage of the story under the title “The Bullet Is Still in My Pocket.”

I record these words so that the reader can experience all the feelings of the story’s protagonist.

“The bullet will remain in my pocket as long as there is a Jew on my land… My land begins in Sinai.”