{"id":56162,"date":"2014-10-31T16:05:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T20:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56162"},"modified":"2014-10-31T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T20:05:45","slug":"thank-you-for-your-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56162","title":{"rendered":"Thank You For Your Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I posted about this before, but it happened again today and I STILL get rattled when it happens &#8211; enough to post about it yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Some back-story: For 30 plus years I didn&#8217;t acknowledge my Vietnam service outside of some very narrow confines.\u00a0 BTW &#8211;\u00a0 The only VN mud I got on me was during a one-time trip to a bar in DaNang .<\/p>\n<p>Around the time we did GoE (Gathering of Eagles in &#8217;07) it kinda felt okay to do so.\u00a0 A coupla years ago I bought a baseball cap (made in China?) , and I wear it often.<\/p>\n<p>So today I visited my local Mini-Mart and a guy also checking out said &#8220;Thank you for your service.&#8221; I had enough wits to respond with &#8220;Thanks, we all did what we could.&#8221; But THEN he added &#8220;I hope you didn&#8217;t get greeted like some did?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By this time there were, maybe, a half dozen folks standing there and I kinda blurted out &#8221; Got spit at and called Baby Killer once in San Fransisco in &#8217;69.&#8221;\u00a0 Noted some odd looks from the mini-group and left.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know the PC answer to the &#8220;Thank You&#8230;&#8221; is a simple &#8220;you&#8217;re welcome&#8221;, but I still get flummoxed and fumble.<\/p>\n<p>Just might be too old to learn proper decorum?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I posted about this before, but it happened again today and I STILL get &hellip; <a title=\"Thank You For Your Service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56162\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank You For Your Service<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}