To the veterans — for the wars we know about, the wars we don't, the years away from home, the lives put on hold — we say thank you. We do not say it enough.
Fresh today · Tuesday, 14 July
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Today is about the kind of courage that is hard to talk about. The kind that doesn't seek a parade. The kind that just shows up. Thank you.
Veterans Day is for paying attention. To the people who served. To their families. To what was given and what was lost. Today, eyes open. Today, hat off.
Thank you, veterans. For all of it. The known and the unknown. The said and the unsaid. The years and the moments. Today and forever.
Thank you for your service. Thank you for what it cost. Thank you for what you carried back.
Two words don't cover it. We're going to say them anyway. Thank you.
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To every veteran I know: thank you. To every veteran I don't: thank you. The list is long. We mean every name.
Thank you for the years you gave. Thank you for the family who waited. Thank you for the home you made when you came back.
Some thanks belong to history. Some belong to today. Both belong to you. Thank you, veteran.
The freedom I live in is not abstract. It's something other people paid for. You paid for it. Thank you.
There is no thank-you long enough. So let me say a short, true one: I am grateful for you. Today especially. Always.
Thank you. For the early mornings. For the long deployments. For the holidays missed. For the choice you made when you didn't have to.
Thank you for your service. I know those words can sound rehearsed. Today I want you to hear them as true.
To my grandfather, to my uncle, to my friend who served, to my neighbor who served, to the stranger I'll never meet who served: thank you.
The country thanks you. We don't always say it well. Today we're trying. Thank you.
Thank you for being part of something that asked everything from you, and for showing up anyway.
Today I'm thinking of you. Of what you did. Of what it cost you. Of how rarely you ask for credit. Thank you.
To the soldier who came back changed: we see you. To the family who loved them back to ordinary days: we see you. Thank you. All of you.
Thank you for showing up when so many of us got to look away. Thank you for being the country's quiet, steady spine.
Words feel small for this. So I'll send them anyway, plain and meant: thank you for your service.
Some Americans love this country with bumper stickers. You loved it with years of your life. We notice the difference. Thank you.
To my dear veteran friend — thank you. Today and always. For what you gave. For the man it made you. For the friend you became after.
Thank you for the days you didn't get back. The birthdays missed. The first steps not seen. The Christmases spent far away. Thank you.
The thanks we owe veterans is unending. The very least we can do is say it out loud. So: thank you. Loud. Today.
To the people who served — quietly, loudly, in war, in peace, in offices, in fields, in places we'll never know — thank you. Thank you.