My company is trying to plan something for the upcoming Veterans Day to honor and celebrate our veteran employees. As a veteran, what are some activities you would appreciate or find meaningful? Looking for ideas that go beyond a social media post. TIA!

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Couple cases of rip it should do the trick.

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You had to buy those? The fuck

A social event/happy hour with better-than-usual catered food. Nothing boosts morale like good food. That's why they used to serve us lobster before a deployment

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A monetary donation (or committing to sponsoring a dog for the entire training) to Shelter to Soldier, a non profit that rescues shelter dogs and trains them to be support dogs for veterans.

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Catered Mission BBQ would really be the go to for something like that!

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Raffles to include the following
Paid time off
Money
Gift cards
Alcohol
Range time
Ammo

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What do y’all think I know these are not activities. When I saw the post it reminded me off mandatory fun days and we all know we hatted those.

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Mine gives veterans the day off (not a normal company holiday)

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Getting the day off.

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My last firm sent us Yeti tumblers with dog tags on them that said Vet. Years later still my favorite coffee cup.

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Sounds cheesy but a company challenge coin, handshake and a 3 day weekend will go pretty damn far

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Guns and ammo
Dogs that roam the office, and you can do play w... not just a day off but the month off would be nice

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Organize a care package drive and send it out to a deployed unit. I loved those when I was deployed to Ramadi....special thank you to anything Jerky or Jerky adjacent (slim jims).

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Some booze and a day off. Or just the day off, I can cover the booze

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Depends on what kind of company you work for

Come on bro

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Great ideas everyone, thank you!!

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