Hey listeners, it's Mishie.

So as you know, during these incredibly difficult days, we're trying to bring you voices

we're hearing among and around us.

Not stories, just quick conversations, postcards really, that try to capture slivers of life

right now.

Yesterday we heard from Ariel Marcos, a mother of four little kids whose husband was called

up to the reserves and who's trying to learn how to both be there for her kids and keep

her own sanity during these crazy days.

And today we'll hear from the other side of that story.

From a reservist who dropped everything, family, work, life, and join the war.

Here's our producer, Mitch Ginsburg.

On Thursday night I drove down to my old reserves base.

I remember what it looked like on the eve of the second Lebanon war in 2006.

Now it was far more chaotic.

I came to meet up with a former platoon mate of mine.

We sat in the car with the engine off and the windows up.

Back in the early 90s we served together in the Parachute Breckon unit.

We're 50 now and no longer obligated to serve in the reserves.

But when he saw the news of the Hamas attack, he put in a call to a former commander of

ours and asked if he could be of use.

The commander said yes.

And my friend wrote back, coming.

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