Today we celebrate our nation’s military veterans, those who served in uniform during war or peace. We owe you our gratitude.
My father was a vet and his brother was a career Army officer. Plus two of my mother’s brothers and her sister were vets.
I got a draft notice but flunked the physical twice, on account of a blown rotator cuff. They weren’t repairing those when I was young. You just lived with it and didn’t lift that arm over your head, a practice I follow to this day.
