I try to keep this blog focused on business related topics. Today, I shall stray. Indulge me. Several years ago, I was at one of the large home-improvement stores with my father. We were elbow deep in bins of hardware, when a man with the store's signature bright apron walked up and asked if he could help us with anything. He noticed the hat my father was wearing, black with "Vietnam Veteran" in yellow. The man commented on this, and I noticed he wore both a hat and shirt listing his Vietnam Veteran status. They began speaking in a code I had heard before. They listed years served, along with the names of cities that all seemed to end in "-ang" or "-san". They spoke of their infantry divisions. They even asked of people they may know in common. The man then said something that left me speechless. "Thank you for your service....and Welcome Home." At first, such an odd statement. These two men had served in a foreign war roughly four
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