Veteran Hats proper acknowledgment
First of thank you for your service! I respect you all and am grateful. I have not served in the military as I get older parts of me wish I did due to many aspects, but that is not the point. Forgive my ignorance and naivety but I want to ask the proper etiquette on this. I see many individuals with Veteran hats on throughout day to day services. One is a wonderful man that serves my coffee and wears one every day at Honey Dew ( Afghanistan veteran). The other day I saw an older man alone wearing a veteran hat and I wanted to talk to him and hear his stories and thank him with my kids. Without sounding totally weird is it normal to say to someone wearing one thank you for your service? What is the proper etiquette? I also don’t want to as a society just ignore these things since it’s something that should be honored! For some reason I’m chocked up writing this. Anyways please guide me.