Monday, January 19, 2009
Aaron Binik-Thomas Reflections From An Israeli Soldier
For the most part I am pretty drained emotionally and physically. My injuries make it hard to a lot of everyday tasks and don’t allow me to sleep well either. I was injured in a training exercise preparing my unit for Gaza. And sadly I missed the fighting and the war…
My platoon was the first group of soldiers to cross the border, we lead the charge. After about an hour of walking slowly in the fields on the way to Gaza city they reached a small hill. Slowly each squad of my platoon crossed the hill to the next ‘safe’ spot. Apparently Hamas had a lookout and gave the coordinates of my platoon to one of their mortar squads. They launched a mortar and it landed, thank G-D, a few meters in front of the first squads.
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