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Personal Narrative: My Experience With Veterans

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Introduction While helping my mom set up for Veterans Day, I was in charge of meeting with the Veterans and helping them get their visitor passes into the elementary school. The turn out was great, many veterans showed up in a variety of ages. I met with the oldest veteran there and helped him get situated before the parade began. World War 2 Veteran The man was wearing hearing aids, because of the loss in hearing due to age and that made our conversation a lot easier. In small talk he told me he was 101 years old, which makes him a centenarian. He explained that although technically he was in the Army in World War 2 as pilot, was only because there was not an established Air Force yet. I noticed he still wore his wedding ring, but there

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