Hey listeners, it's Mishi.

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 joined 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 paratroop recon 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. During normal times, he's a school principal. Today,

he's back in uniform.

Okay, so here we are outside of an army base near the center of the country,

absolutely lined with thousands of vehicles of reservists and some singing and some barbecueing.

And I'm speaking to a reservist who's particularly close to my heart, a very close friend of mine.

Would you introduce yourself, please?

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