The wind remembers their names
BY MOSHE KATZ 
CEO
ISRAELI KRAV INTERNATIONAL

September 7, 2026, California

We all have a name. We want people to remember our name. As you near the end of the Yad Va Shem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem you see a letter written by a young boy, long since dead, remember only that I too was a person, with dreams, with feelings, I too had a name. 

In fact, the words Yad va Shem mean a Hand a Name. Our name is our identity, our spiritual being.

The Vietnam War memorial records the names of every one of the 28,220 US soldiers who lost their lives during that conflict, Yad va Shem is trying to record as many of the 6 milion plus Jewish victims of Nazism. Names matter. Mount Herzel military cemetery in Jerusalem has a wall with every victim of Arab terrorism carved in stone. Remember my name. 

But there is a group whose names are forgotten, the victims of random violence. The girl in Tennesse who left her home one morning to attend nursing school who was raped, strangled, brutally murdered and buried in a shallow grave in the woods, the three American young men who murdered on the beach while on vacation in Mexico, the young mother who was brutally stabbed in New York City just months after welcoming her first child to the world. No monument marks the names of these countless victims, no stone cries to heaven for these people killed for no reason. 

and yet they live within me. I learn their stories, I share the pain of their families, I experience with them the pain and humiliation of their final moments when they cried out for help but none came. I share their struggle. 

I cannot possibly remember all their names, nor can I possibly know all their stories, but I believe the wind carries their names for eternity. The wind remembers their names and whispers it in our ears when we are receptive to it. When I train, when I research and develop new techniques, I hear the wind whisper their names. 

The wind carries their names; the wind remembers and reminds me of all those who struggled, who were beaten, violated, and dumped on the side of the road. The wind remembers, I remember, their struggles live within our IKI Krav Maga system.

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Moshe Katz, 8th dan Black Belt, Israeli Krav Maga. Certified by Wingate Institute. Member Black Belt Hall of fame, USA and Europe.

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