Thanks

It's Veteran's Day in the U.S.A. and so I offer my thanks to those who served or who are serving. I got to do so in person at my gym today, to one of the guys who works there who's a year or so out of the Navy and going to school nearby. Also to his wife, who's finishing a hitch in the Air Force and who probably knows several ways to kill me without dropping heavy ordnance on my head for all that she weighs maybe a buck-ten and seems far too nice to shout orders at people.

I never served, but I come from a family with a swabbie and four jarheads just one generation back and who knows what else if you go back beyond that. So thanks, gentlemen and ladies.

Mike Royko, as always, has the appropriate suggested celebration for the day.