If I had the writing talent of my good friend, David von Treppenwitz, I'd turn this post into a family saga involving Shoah, life in America, aliyah, and the first child on both his parents' sides born in Eretz Yisrael. I'd go on to tell you about the history of Regiment 890 of the Paratrooper's Brigade, among the most fabled regiments in IDF history.
But, lacking both the talent and the patience, the best I can do is to just blurt out that this week the Paratrooper's Brigade inductees of March 2007 finished their training and were given their red berets in a big ceremony on Ammunition Hill. And when they called up the chayal mitztayen of the latest class of Regiment 890, damned if it wasn't that little kid whose father dropped him off at first grade with such trepidation like, what, two or three years ago. His greener parents were overwhelmed.
Hashem yishmereyhu veyatzileyhu.
Oh my!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't have happened to the son of nicer (or less militaristic) parents!
Mazal Tov, giyus qal, Hashem yishmerehu!
hey, wasnt this the kid who was almost too scrawny to make it in?
ReplyDeleteThis one is the older unscrawny one. The scrawny one's time will come in due course.
ReplyDeleteyou became so frum, you couldn't tell me this in shul? :-)
ReplyDeleteKvell, enjoy, repeat.
Mazel Tov!
ReplyDeleteMay Hashem watch over him.
may you have nachas from him and he should be safe!
ReplyDeleteGlückwünsche.
ReplyDelete~Von Treppenwitz~
May y(our) children inherit the gates of their enemies. Mazel tov.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. May you continue to have much nachas from all of your children.
ReplyDeleteMazel tov!
ReplyDeleteHashem yishmirayhu --- he and his colleagues are always in our tefillot.