Cohen Veterans Network 6489866 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. We recently asked our staff this question and got some interesting and varied answers! <br /><br />What is the most meaningful way someone else has appreciated your service? 2020-11-11T14:58:49-05:00 Cohen Veterans Network 6489866

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. We recently asked our staff this question and got some interesting and varied answers! <br /><br />What is the most meaningful way someone else has appreciated your service?

2020-11-11T14:58:49-05:00 2020-11-11T14:58:49-05:00 SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth 6489873

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Just being thanked is good enough for me <a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="1648991" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/1648991-cohen-veterans-network">Cohen Veterans Network</a>

2020-11-11T15:01:16-05:00 2020-11-11T15:01:16-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 6489879

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Mainly by asking me for help and advice based on my career and knowledge - that&#39;s always the highest form of respect in my view, and makes me thankful for everything I endured or did for the Army.<br />Warriors Forever!<br />-Ed

2020-11-11T15:02:21-05:00 2020-11-11T15:02:21-05:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 6489903

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was eating at Olive Garden with my wife and two girls when a nice man adjacent to us demanded to pay our bill against my protest. He had a couple young kids and talked to them about the virtues of serving.

2020-11-11T15:08:44-05:00 2020-11-11T15:08:44-05:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 6490649

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>When thanked by another veteran. <br /><br />It&#39;s starting to feel like an over used phrase. We take a lot of crap doing what we do, but cops take 10 more times of it, and no one is going around thanking them as a common phrase. <br /><br />I remember being thanked by some fat mid 20&#39;s guy, and thought if it wasn&#39;t for generations like him I wouldn&#39;t have be able to get in myself when I did at 38.

2020-11-11T20:49:34-05:00 2020-11-11T20:49:34-05:00 SSG Dale London 6494285

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>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&#39;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.<br />Far from feeling proud, I felt humbled by this. I had only been a soldier for six weeks -- actually I hadn&#39;t even passed Basic yet, but these folks treated me like a hero. <br />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.<br />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.<br />Funny how powerful one beer can be, huh?

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