To qualify my earlier post....I do not begrudge gratitude at all.....I just do not see myself as special in any way. My son is a tanker in the Army....currently wrapping up a deployment in Kuwait/Iraq...and he feels the very same way. I did two combat tours, and he has done two peacekeeping tours...it's just a job like any other, just a bit more dangerous, but certainly NOT more than the jobs that firefighters, cops, salvage divers do. We all protect someone or something...but the other's do not seem to receive the same sentiments....and certainly do not seem to warrant holidays in their honour.