Ditter, thank you for sharing this. Most of the men, and a few of the women, in my family have served in the US armed forces. My mom's older brother was almost killed in Vietnam. My brother went to (and returned from) Iraq, not once, but twice. My cousin is flying helis over Afghanistan. Another is flying a jet in Korea. My husband was a classified number of feet below sea level when the Berlin Wall came down (I'm 8 years younger than he is).
So many people forget what these men and women sacrifice so that they can go about their lives. We need to remember what they have done for us. I, for one, will never forget, and I always try to at least smile at uniformed personnel, if not greet and thank them whenever I can.