Exclusiorary or Discriminative?

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I've enjoyed the 10% discount for veterans at "Lowes" for
a year or so with my VA card. Good on them!

Now I've been denied because I'm not disabled, active or retired?!?!?

I thought a veteran, other than "dishonorably discharged"
was a veteran.

Salute to you all!
 
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I wouldn't have admitted that, now the forum will be wanting you to delete the Veteran standing next to your screen name.
Just Jokin, Heh Heh
 
There are veterans and then there are veterans. My company's HR got all balled up in the distinction. It can be any of those listed.

Disabled veterans - disabled due to wounds received during war.
Veterans who served in the armed svcs and later disabled.
active service veterans
retired from military svc, ie 20 yrs etc, veterans
veterans that served in a war zone.... war veterans
veterans that served anywhere during war time.
past members of the armed services.

others ?

Those in power, usually not veterans, make the distinctions.

Charlie
 
The fine print of the Lowe's program is likely not that it is a veteran's discount, but that it is a military discount. As such it was primarily geared towards active duty and their dependents with retirees and disabled veterans(ie medically retired) also included. Basically the same people who would have privledges to shop on base.
 
FYI - Lowe's 10% discount coupons (anyone can use) are in the moving packets at the Post Office. Home Depot will honor.
 
thndrchiken said:
Don't feel bad the PRNJ (state) does not consider you a veteran unless you actually saw combat.
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Neither do I, actually. Although I served, I was never shot at, chunked at, yes, but not shot at. I'm proud to have served, but I didn't have a bad time of it. A lot of guys did, so, yes, I think there is a difference, and I, for one, salute you, and don't mind the distinction at all. Someone said, "They also serve, who only stand and wait." So true. But, it's still not the same, is it?
 
If you are not retired or currently serving, then you must be receiving "VA benefits" for the discount to apply.

Your VA card will show "Service Connected" on the front.

My wife called me saying some of her patients told her anyone with a VA card got the discount at Lowes/HD. I was just pulling in to a HD to buy a plastic box similar to the Dillon boxes on their reloaders.

I found the box, at about $4.98, went to the checkout and told the woman what my wife said. She showed me their policy and it clearly says "Service Connected" and shows a photo of a VA card with and without "Service Connected" on it.

I am a bit embarrassed to admit I then handed her my card to see if it worked. I found out it doesn't "work" rather the cashier physically takes the 10% off. :o

I was glad there were no other customers in line behind me since I am one of those guys who gets annoyed in the grocery store when, after the clerk rings up a basket full of groceries, the customer then starts searching for their check book or debit card.

I don't think I'd ordinarily use it to save 50 cents, but I think it's awfully nice of HD and Lowes to offer it.

Bob
 
I just wish they'd be more open about it.

Several years ago, long about the 1 of July, I drove my mother down to Lowes to buy a new flag. Hers was old and faded, and she wanted a new one for the Fourth. There was a sign at the flags - 10% discount for active and retired military. So I asked, when we went up there with the five-dollar flag, if that applied to dependents too? Lady said "long as you got an ID card". I said "Show her your card, Mama (Daddy was retired Navy). 50 cents is 50 cents." It was nice that she got that 50 cent discount on that five dollar flag, but I thought it was just a Fourth of July promotion. Would have been nice to know that it was all the time, when she bought that 500 dollar lawn mower.
 
Our local Home Depot just asks if you were a veteran, and gives a disount, but only on Veterans day. On Veterans Day, lots of local merchants gave discounts to Vet's, and Appelby's gave free meals.
 
There are many more soldiers who are deployed to a combat zone that never "see combat" than there are soldiers who are in "combat".

The definition of a veteran, at one time, was anyone who served on active duty for more than 180 continuous days, excluding time spent in a training.

Any solder who has spent a minimum of six years in the Guard or Reserves (I believe that is the correct number) is eligible for a VA loan. They may or may not havbe been deployed to a combat zone, they may or may nor have seen actual "combat".
 
Some of y'all are weird. "Not a veteran unless you saw combat".

My daddy enlisted in 1940. Retired in 1961 as a Senior Chief. I don't know what he did during the War. I asked him one time, when I was a kid, and he told me he got shot in the butt, but Mama told me that didn't happen. That was the only time we ever talked about the war. I don't know what he did during Korea. So I have no earthly idea if he was a "combat veteran". But after 21 years in the Navy, he damn sure was a Veteran.
 
Armyphotog said:
. . . Although I served, I was never shot at, chunked at, yes, but not shot at. I'm proud to have served, but I didn't have a bad time of it. A lot of guys did, so, yes, I think there is a difference, and I, for one, salute you, and don't mind the distinction at all. Someone said, "They also serve, who only stand and wait." So true. But, it's still not the same, is it?
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No, it isn't. Thanks for posting this. I did my job, and I did it well, but I was never shot at, either.

Navyphotog
 
I've been asked if I'm military a lot, I've never served but my hair is usually cut short, I'm kinda fit, and do have some interesting tattoos on my arms. I wonder if it'sthe tattoos? They are not in any way military, I designed each one myself.
 
You just can't use a corp card....Rack Room Shoes also offer 10% off... just show you old, id, active or inactive......
 
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