Heard this on the way to work today. Many Thanks to all the Veterans.
What Is A Vet
As Heard On The Harmon & Heywood Show Veterans Day
Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.
Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg.
Except for parades, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. But You can't tell a vet just by looking.
A vet is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Iraq sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
He is the bar-room loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
She is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
They are the P-O-W-S who went away one person and came back another.
He is the drill instructor who has never seen combat but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into soldiers and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
He is the old guy putting your Mrs bairds Bread in your bag at the supermarket, palsied now and aggravatingly slow..But in his dayt he helped liberate a Nazi death camp and wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
He or she is a soldier and a savior and nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember tomorrow at the Vets Day Parade..in the mall..at the grocery store..each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You.
That's all most people need and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "Thank You"