11.11
So I was IMing with a coworker a few days ago and I wished her a happy Veteran’s Day. The conversation went on a bit and she said “oh and THANKS!”.
You see, I’m a veteran.
I was a little taken aback. I mean I’m not a combat veteran in any real sense. I was a Combat Engineer and technically I did serve a short “combat” tour to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the months just after the “first Gulf War” (during which I think our biggest threat was warm sodas and bad music).
Very quickly scenes from my military experience flooded past… some fun, some not so much, some I’m proud of, some I’m not… most of them hard.
Despite the current abomination that is our involvement in Iraq, I still believe whole heartedly in “…to defend the Constitution…” and although I’m “fat and outa shape” today, I will always consider myself a soldier in some small way.
So I wrote back, “Any time”
