Comment You are a Vet (Score 1) 5
With all due respect, you are a veteran, even if you were only in for a few years. You would be a veteran even if you had been badly hurt the day you graduated Basic and had to be medically discharged. In a professional, all-volunteer military like ours, anyone who makes it through Basic, or one of the Academies, and takes the oath (and does not later repudiate that oath) is a vet, even if his or her service lasts no more than a day.
Your humility is admirable and not all that surprising, but it's slightly misplaced. You sell yourself short. This is your day just as much as it is the day of every American man or woman who has been killed, wounded, or captured on the field of battle.