Posted on Nov 11, 2020
What is the most meaningful way someone else has appreciated your service?
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Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. We recently asked our staff this question and got some interesting and varied answers!
What is the most meaningful way someone else has appreciated your service?
What is the most meaningful way someone else has appreciated your service?
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Responses: 4
Mainly by asking me for help and advice based on my career and knowledge - that's always the highest form of respect in my view, and makes me thankful for everything I endured or did for the Army.
Warriors Forever!
-Ed
Warriors Forever!
-Ed
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I went to basic training in November 1980 and we were all sent home during the Christmas exodus. We had to travel in uniform. As I was changing busses in Chattanooga, I popped into a bar to buy a beer (the first I'd had in six weeks). Two old timers clocked my uniform and refused to let me pay for my beer or to buy one for them in return. We talked for maybe half an hour before I had to leave to get my next bus. I was treated like family the whole time I was in there and everybody in the bar clapped as I got up to leave.
Far from feeling proud, I felt humbled by this. I had only been a soldier for six weeks -- actually I hadn't even passed Basic yet, but these folks treated me like a hero.
The feeling of needing to deserve that recognition stuck with me throughout my career and it drove me to make better choices than perhaps I would have had it not happened.
Even though I knew I would probably never see those guys again, I wanted to do my best so I would not let them down.
Funny how powerful one beer can be, huh?
Far from feeling proud, I felt humbled by this. I had only been a soldier for six weeks -- actually I hadn't even passed Basic yet, but these folks treated me like a hero.
The feeling of needing to deserve that recognition stuck with me throughout my career and it drove me to make better choices than perhaps I would have had it not happened.
Even though I knew I would probably never see those guys again, I wanted to do my best so I would not let them down.
Funny how powerful one beer can be, huh?
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