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There is an underlying similarity between drafted in the military and being sent to Auschwitz. In both of them, a person is being confined to a place and told a do a specific list of tasks against their will. Maybe I’m being a little too pessimistic here, maybe the experience would be more like being in a Stalag Luft (conditions at the Luftwaffe operated camps were much better compared to others), or maybe it would even be like a resort, but it’s still a place that I did not choose to be and have no control over myself.

My enlistment is at 1130h tomorrow morning, but I’m posting this now just in case I’m in a rush tomorrow and don’t have to time to open up my drafts and publish this. No matter how many times one goes through the checklist of items to bring, something always comes up at the last minute. I still have not familiarized myself with the phone I’m supposed to be using, and I’m debating bringing my current one in because the other is too primitive for me.

Goodbye for now.