Hi,
I do not think I have been disconnected so deeply and for so long since the Scouts summer camp when I was a kid or a teenager.
I remember coming from one of those Scouts summer camps so overwhelmed. After only 8 days in the forest, I came back home, and I could not recognize the songs on the radio, like they changed the all playlist with new songs published on those eight days.
I found out the bridge over the main road in my neighborhood got hit by a truck and was half closed. When I talked with my friends, who were not in the Scouts, about it, they said that it was so long ago, why are you talking about it?
I guess you had already understand we did not have any cellphone 
back then. I got my first cellphone (which Ima gave me when I was taking the bus outside of the neighborhood and the city) only on eleven grade. And if I had a cellphone back then, I am not the kind of person who talks, so I guess I would know anything new.
Now, I have been disconnected for 12 days in a row. The team commander and the company commander had cellphones we could use to call home and say we are OK (I could not call home).
It was not that hard. We did not hear the news about the war (well, we were the news, as one said). And we were surrounded by our friends for the company to talk and pass the time. We slept, ate, and mainly fought.
For Atzva this situation was hard. “It was the first time I really felt it is war. That I cannot reach you if there is something rush or urgent. That you are really disconnected”
Take Care
Gad