I walked into a coffee shop in Missoula on Nov. 11 and heard an older man speaking loudly to two other older men, in order to make sure all the students with their laptops out would hear. "For being such a liberal school, I don't know why they take Veterans Day off." I immediately walked right over to him and said, "Perhaps it's because more than 10 percent of the student population are veterans." He shut up and nodded. What I want to hear are some older gentlemen that can at least acknowledge the fact that it is a different generation that has been fighting a 10-year-old war. These are not 60 and 70-year-old men on the battlefield. Some respect, for everyone, would go a lot further in honoring veterans. Isn't that what we fought for?
Nick Fry
Sophomore, wildlife biology
Retired SSG, US Army Paratroopers
27 months
deployed OIF/OEF
is a member of the 
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