A Veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."
Ray Breyer
Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
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