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We don't have one either at the restaurant. I just occasionally throw people a 10% discount if they're wearing a command ball cap or a vet hat. Especially if they don't ask. The ask just feels so cringe outside of veterans day. Glad the Lowes and Home Depot CCs can auto apply the discount without having to bring it up or I'd never use them.
gpt
Fun fact, Lowe's was started by draftees, and originally their military discount was only intended for service members that were involuntarily drafted during the Vietnam War.

Source: An old chatty vet that worked at Lowe's for decades.

EDIT: He could have been full of shit.  Or I may have misunderstood when he said "the owners", he may have meant whoever was in charge of Lowe's at the time.