Veteran's license plate
Just sent in my $5.00 and application with required documentation. We'll see what happens...the local Motor Vehicles office didn't know what the format would be, especially if one already has a vanity plate (Own Choice Plate, in their terminology).
BTW, I mentioned my intention to get this plate to another serving guy...he objected to my doing so since I wasn't a veteran, according to his definition of the term.
Well, you can be damn sure I looked up in the Concise Oxford Dictionary (accepted reference for the Canadian military) before I made a move and...
..."person who has grown old in or had long experience of (esp. military) service or occupation, ex serviceman".
My next observation might open up a veritable can of messy worms, but if the above definition stands, then perhaps the term "Veteran" has, for quite some time, been wrongly used to solely identify those who served during wartime.
Excuse me while I don helmet and flak jacket and, by a series of large leaps, head for the nearest blast proof bunker.
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PRONTO SENDS
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