{"id":9453,"date":"2015-11-11T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9453"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:08:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:08:35","slug":"how-to-thank-veterans-for-their-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/11\/how-to-thank-veterans-for-their-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"How to THANK Veterans for their Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"tpArticleSubtitle\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9454\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/vets.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"vets\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"tpArticleSubtitle\">Twenty-five veterans and service members share how people should thank them for their service.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tpArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"entry-content \">\n<p>For veterans and service members, receiving thanks on Veterans Day, or on any day for that matter, can elicit a wide range of emotions or reactions. Some may respond with a genuine smile, others may give an awkward and humble nod. The reasons for why are as varied as the reactions and as diverse as the veterans being thanked, which raises an important question: On Veterans Day, how do we honor the men and women who have taken this oath and served our country and the American people?<\/p>\n<p>Task &amp; Purpose posed this question to our network of contributors, specifically asking, How should people thank you for your service? Here\u2019s what they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be frustrating to be thanked for my military service for a few reasons, but often it\u2019s because there\u2019s no easy, conversational response. Normally when someone says, \u2018Thanks for XYZ,\u2019 I can just say, \u2018You\u2019re welcome.\u2019 But in this case that sort of rings flat. If people could just find a way to make it easier and more conversational to respond when they thank a veteran for their service, that would be pretty awesome.\u201d \u2014Kevin Bell, U.S. Army veteran<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen when I share my stories and ask questions. Don\u2019t be afraid to offend, veterans aren\u2019t shrinking violets. We\u2019re pretty hardcore. And if you want to buy me a beer, I wouldn\u2019t turn that down.\u201d \u2014Stephanie Christopher, U.S. Army veteran<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/how-to-thank-veterans-for-their-military-service\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=tp-today\">Task and Purpose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five veterans and service members share how people should thank them for their service. For veterans and service members, receiving thanks on Veterans Day, or on any day for that matter, can elicit a wide range of emotions or reactions. Some may respond with a genuine smile, others may give an awkward and humble nod&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,1911],"tags":[1582,2942,444],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}