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2) Talk less. Listen more. Most of the military folks I know aren't looking to be thanked at airports or get discounts at Arby's (some of them are offended by the latter, actually). What nearly every one I have talked to has expressed is a desperate desire for people to listen.
Now, don't ask. Don't volunteer them. They may not be ready to talk. My uncle served before I was born and wasn't really ready to talk until after I was in college. But he had a real need to talk and these days he'll talk to whole classrooms about his service.
Like I said, almost every veteran I've known has expressed, in some way, a deep desire to have people around them, or the general public, to understand...in the limited but very important way that we can.
And we ought to listen. Both because it is the least we can do for the folks that make the 'music and poetry' possible for us, but also because in a democracy where we make decisions about where they fight, we have to take that duty of understanding seriously. Fin.
Met a friend’s new partner who was a vet. I asked if he’d ever been deployed. He said yes. I said interesting and let the convo move on. My friend later told me that her partner was v grateful I didn’t ask if he’d “seen combat” or something like that. Has always stuck with me.
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