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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 964729, member: 26302"]No, thank you for your service sir. You were in a real war, I was just in the Gulf War in 1991 and took a little going through the berm. I was referring to dealers I know and have talked to, and only two were in the service. Servicemen tend to chat a little if it comes up, and I am a talker and like to chat when I am looking at coins. You are right, though, I cannot be sure. I guess I was just trying to say that I think people just have "retail" dispositions or not. Some people can sit behind a counter all day and be glad a customer comes in, others have their mind made up who is worthy of attention and who isn't. I am not sure if it really has anything to do with their health or any war trauma. Two of the worst dealers I knew were in their early forties and were just foul tempered. They were like that for at least ten years I knew them. Fortunately one was just wholesale, but the other had a retail store but had his wife do most guest greeting lol. No disrespect meant to war vets. I know most who really went through the worst don't like to relive it every day, or even once a decade. It took me 30 years to get the full story from my neighbor who was a POW in Korea. I would never compare my story to his, and I understand why its not a favorite subject of his. Chris[/QUOTE]