Honor vets and their families These are dismal times, a troubled economy, a vicious election process. Conflict is all around us. The world is seemingly broken. There are high stress levels. People tell us the sky is falling in, doom and gloom. Everything further distances us from how many of us grew up, feeling patriotic, hopeful and optimistic. It becomes increasingly difficult to focus on the really important things in our lives, who we are as a people and as a nation, what got us where we are, and those who sacrificed so much in order for that to happen. …