Not quite the same thing, but last night a young family came over to pick up some furniture we wanted to get rid of. I had a USMC flag flying outside and the young husband/father asked if I was a veteran. I replied I was and he instantly thanked me for my service. A bit later he told his young daughter, maybe all of 4 years old, that I was a veteran and what that meant, and that she should thank me, which she did.
Around the metropolitan Washington, DC area we have more veterans than a mangy dog has fleas so we don't often get thanked for much of anything.
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