NEWS RELEASE VIA: UNIVERSITY OF TN MARTIN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 10, 2023
Contact: David Snow, Workplace of College Relations, UT Martin
STRAUSS PRESENTS ‘THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE’ FOR VETERANS DAY
MARTIN, Tenn. – “Thanks in your service” was the theme introduced by visitor speaker Col. David A. Strauss (ret.) on the Veterans Day program held Friday, Nov. 10, in Watkin Auditorium within the Boling College Middle on the College of Tennessee at Martin.
Strauss, a 39-year Military veteran, spoke to the viewers concerning the phrase “Thanks in your service.” “What’s the service that veterans present?” he stated. “Is it getting up early within the morning and going and doing (bodily coaching)? Perhaps it’s deploying. No, I don’t assume so.
Col. David A. Strauss (ret.)
Courtesy of UT Martin
“I believe the service that we offer is that we willingly go into hurt’s technique to mission the need of the USA on our adversaries. Don’t get me flawed; we do a whole lot of different issues. We’ve got operations and humanitarian operations, however when it will get proper all the way down to it, we stand in the way in which of somebody – a nation or non-nation state – and we drive them to do or to not do one thing.”
Strauss then requested if that’s true, then what’s the equal-value compensation that these offering navy service obtain? Is it the cash? Is it the advantages? “In my view, there isn’t a equal compensation for what it’s that we do as veterans,” he stated. “If there isn’t a equal compensation, maybe what we should always say isn’t ‘Thanks in your service,’ however ‘Thanks in your selfless service.’”
Strauss then requested that if there isn’t a equal-value compensation, why do those that present navy service do what they do?
“It’s a phrase, and it’s a phrase that we don’t use fairly often as of late: Honor,” he stated. “It’s that selfless act of placing ourselves in hurt’s technique to shield our residents and shield our American lifestyle in order that others don’t need to, and there’s no satisfactory compensation for that.
“It’s the sacrifice or willingness to sacrifice in order that others received’t need to. We few stand prepared on the wall so others received’t need to, in order that they will pursue what the Founding Fathers decreed: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Strauss is a UT Martin alumnus, receiving a fee as lieutenant of infantry in 1993. He enlisted within the Military in 1983 after graduating highschool, and in 1999, he accomplished the Particular Forces Operational Detachment Officer Qualification Course and was assigned to the seventh Particular Pressure Group (Airborne).
In 2004, he was chosen to be a civil affairs officer, which he served till his retirement in 2022.
A local of Bradford, Strauss and his spouse, Cheryl, now reside in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. They’ve three kids and 4 grandchildren.
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