Sensitive

My 10 1/2 year old is sensitive.
I always knew it. Throughout his (whole) life he has been. Sometimes overly so. Often not really--at least when it comes to his younger sibs. But when it comes to his national family, he REALLY is.
His school has planned a day to a waterpark in Ashdod.
He was really excited about it, until just over a week ago.

Then he began davening mincha almost daily and playing military (he knows the lingo in English and Hebrew). You should see the platoon he's assembled in the back yard!
He scans the paper tensely each morning, blurting out the stats of the previous day's events, despite my telling him that I am not interested--c'mon we are trying to eat breakfast and there are little kids around. (Actually, I am not yet ready to digest anything, food or those facts, early in the morn.)
But he's right. How can breakfast be served--something so mundane and NORMAL--when families, our very own brothers and sister, are clinging to each other in bomb shelters?!?
Now he decided that he will not participate in the "yom kef" (a day of fun) along with his classmates. He feels that the stress of it all is too much (HIS WORDS!) and that it's not appropriate either. This was a decision he made, and which we support. He called one of the Rabbanim with whom we are close and spoke about it with him. He was advised to go, give chizuk to the people he sees, make berachos throughout the eretz, and to not worry!
But, he's not going.
After all, he is sensitive.