Please remember - today is Veteran's Day

missypie
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:17:03 +0000

The week of Veterans’ Day 2001 our law firm had a week long series of events honoring the veterans in the firm. Nothing major - things like an “identify that picture” (using guys’ shaved head age 21 military pictures), cake in a conference room, etc. One of our attorneys who was a Vietnam Vet told the managing partner that that was the first time anyone had ever thanked him or honored him for his service.

Isn’t that terribly sad? In retrospect, the returning Vietnam Vets were treated so shabbily -as if the war was their idea. I think that in general, this time around, we are doing a better job of honoring the soldier, even if we might not agree with the mission.