Veterans Day today finds many operations --- from restaurants to parks --- honoring those in uniform, past or present, with special deals and offers; yet the fine gestures often do not make it into newspapers, notes Grumpy Editor.
Deals and offers range from free lunch or dinner at many restaurants to a free donut at Krispy Kreme outlets.
Home improvement chains such as Home Depot and Lowe’s dangle 10 percent discounts. And a number of parks, commercial and federal, offer free admissions.
Applebee’s, in efforts to get the word out, for example, paid for half-page ads in some newspapers around the country to announce its free meals today to military veterans and active duty personnel. With almost 2,000 locations, the neighborhood restaurant chain, an operation of New York Stock Exchange-listed DineEquity Inc., last year served more than one million meals to current or former military.
In enjoying the attractions and to weed out those not qualified, past and present military are required to show proof of military identification.
Compiling the many Veterans Day offers is a giant task. Few newspaper editors assign the time-consuming chore.
But Ryan Guina, an Air Force veteran who writes about military money topics at themilitarywallet.com goes into detail with a long list of operations that offer Veterans Day deals. He also writes at cashmoneylife.com.
On The Military Wallet, he explains, “the military will always be near and dear to my heart, and I want to share as much information with our nation’s veterans and family members as I can.”
The Web site, he points out, is designed to help military members, veterans, retirees and dependents find information about military money matters including pay, benefits, legislation and more.
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