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“Thanks for your service”

“Thanks for your service”

2017-11-11 jer_

I’ve always felt a little uncomfortable being thanked for my service; typically I wave it off with some reference to the wasteful, frivolous, and dangerous way that I spent much of my enlistment. I don’t like to talk much about what my service meant to me, and there are so many amusing stories to tell instead that I tend to just focus on those. Continue reading “Thanks for your service” →

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