National Guard
This past Saturday, my family and I went to a local restraunt. When we entered the restraunt I took a (figurative) step back. Why? you ask. Because I was met by a sea of green camoflauge. I don’t think I had ever seen so many people wearing green camoflauge in my life. Who were these people? None other than members of the National Guard. I was overwhelmed. I followed my family in and joined them in finding a place to sit (there were a total of eight of us and I wasn’t sure we’d find a place for us all to sit together). I sat for a few minutes or so and decided to go back to my car and grab my camera. On my way out, I happened to glance down and noticed something yellow on the upper left-hand side of my t-shirt. What I discovered (which made me laugh considering) was that I was wearing my “I support the troops” t-shirt. I had planned to wear it just because, but it didn’t really dawn on me until then the significance of the whole thing.
After I grabbed my camera, I returned inside and stopped between two tables with the most guardsmen and told them thank you. One of them responded by thanking me (which always makes me laugh simply because I have more reason to thank them) and then added “Thank you for wearing the shirt.” WOW!!!! That really made my day. I explained to him that I just realized what shirt I had on while going back out to my car.
Later, as I left the restraunt, I made a point to stop by another table where a couple of guardsmen were sitted and thanked them too.
The whole experience was truly amazing!
To all who read this and either have or are serving in the United States military: THANK YOU!!!!