At the CNBC town hall meeting, President Obama responded appropriately to a supporter who mentioned, in passing, that his son had just been commissioned as a U.S. army officer. Before turning to the questioner’s principal query, the president made it a point to thank the man’s son for “his service to our country.”

So he should. So should we all.

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