05-13-2010, 20:14
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: 11 miles from Dove Creek, Colorady
Posts: 3,924
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Originally Posted by the squid
An older man came up to me in Ryan's yesterday and asked me if I was a veteran. I was a bit uncomfortable with the question, seeing as how I'm now a 2LT with about six days time in grade (I don't even think I've come up to my date of rank yet), I told him yes cause I spent a few years in the Navy.
He thanked me for my service and said "Welcome home."
I told him I'd never deployed, and he said "Welcome home," all the same.
I'm grateful for the recognition, and I do realize that to most people who thank me, I am more or less representing the entire military . . . but I don't feel I've yet done anything that's rated their gratitude.
I am gracious and respectful though, all the same.
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I expect maybe that older man never got a "welcome home" himself.
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