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Friday is Veterans Day, and, like clockwork, the Pentagon has rolled out a 75-second video of new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta – an Army vet himself — thanking all who have served. Do these celluloid Hallmarks mean anything? Most troops I speak with never see them; this one had a grand total of just over 100 viewers by Thursday morning. But it’s not eyeballs these kinds of videos seek. It’s more about setting a tone, an acknowledgement of those who have given so much. Spoken into the ether, these words are like that tree that falls in the forest that no one hears. But it did fall. You can look it up. And, perhaps nudged by the SecDef, thank a veteran, too.