The Draft

June 7, 2007 - 11:00 AM by

Jerusalem Wanderings’ (JW) daughter started army service this week and mom blogged it here.

It’s generally an emotional event tied in with growing up, moving away from parents and the like but JW seems to be very upbeat:

My daughter was drafted yesterday into the army. I thought there would be more fanfare – ceremonies, large crowds, music, speeches. There were just a few families there with their about-to-be-soldier daughters at the place where we were at in Jerusalem….

I never had so many phone calls from her that first day in the army as I had in 6 months. She called me up at 2:30 pm.

“They’re starting to be mean.”

“Of course they are. But you can handle ‘mean’. Where did you think you were going? To a spa?”

Tags: • Category: Immigrant Moments, Israeliness, Life 

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