if you know the drill, it’s automatic.  We wake up to the alarm and are down in the shelter in a minute and a half, just as we hear the boom.  This rocket came just at the time in the morning when kids would be off to school and others off to work.  But it’s a chol hamoed so many people are on vacation, and only the special schools work.  That meant our shelter was full of kids with special needs who were on they way, people half dressed, and sleepy-eyed neighbors who hadn’t woken yet.  I looked at them and thought what the people on October 7 must have felt when their towns were invaded with murderers – the confusion, the terror.  The reactions of the autistic children to the noise and the strange shelters seemed perfectly normal considering the situation.