 The one main reason that I chose to serve in the United States Army was for college benefits. When I originally joined, I had gone to college for a period of time, I lived in a small town, there wasn't a lot of jobs, no real career paths, so I joined the military and in doing that I've earned my bachelor's degree, currently work on my master's degree. I'm a full-time systems administrator when I'm not activated with the National Guard and also currently pursuing cyber, so they've definitely helped me accomplish those goals that I had. A lot of times I don't think of myself as a veteran, I think most of the time I think because I'm still serving and I run into a lot of situations where I'll be in uniform and always be thanked by those before me that actually served, had much harder time serving and so for me Veterans Day is more thanking them for the path that they led because I think today's military has a lot more benefits and we're treated a lot better because of the efforts that they put forward to make sure that things are better for us. One of the best things I think that we do to honor our veterans is definitely the parades and bringing attention to the fact that they've served, definitely honor those who have fallen, I'm just taking time to be thankful for all that they've given.