 " There was one moment in the Six @-@ Day War which symbolized the great victory : that was the moment in which the first paratroopers — under Gur 's command — reached the stones of the Western Wall , feeling the emotion of the place ; there never was , and never will be , another moment like it . Nobody staged that moment . Nobody planned it in advance . Nobody prepared it and nobody was prepared for it ; it was as if Providence had directed the whole thing : the paratroopers weeping — loudly and in pain — over their comrades who had fallen along the way , the words of the Kaddish prayer heard by Western Wall 's stones after 19 years of silence , tears of mourning , shouts of joy , and the singing of " Hatikvah " " . 
