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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2094 - Thank you Veterans: Vet Day 2020

 

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2094 - Thank you Veterans: Vet Day 2020

INAUGURATION COUNTDOWN


70 DAYS to inauguration

Originally, this post was going to be about a poem and Seamus Heaney and Joe Biden, but that can wait for tomorrow.

Because today is Veteran's Day, and it's important to thank veterans and the currently serving for their service and their sacrifice. For their heroism. For their patriotism.

How much do we do for Veterans?

19 million veterans in our country and do we think of them more often than once a year?

Many do. Many have family members serving. Many live with a veteran who may remind them from time to time that they served.

But do we perform random acts of kindness for our veterans.

Do we fight for them? For their care? For how hard hit they have been by Covid-19?

Don't just go hug a veteran.

Reach out to your senator, your representative on the national or state level to do more, to increase VA hospital funding, to offer more benefits, to give back to those who have given us our very freedom.

I am proud to say that I teach at a school that especially in the online college is almost exclusively currently serving, mostly Air Force, and veterans and their families. I thank every semester, more than once a semester.

My father served.

My father in law served.

My brother in law served.

My great uncles served.

I have had friends who served and who are serving now.

I have taught many who served, and I have thanked them.

Thank you. It's not enough, but it's a start.























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