Recognition is a funny thing.
When you work in TV, you're bound to be recognized here and there. Sometimes people are nice and say friendly things, other times, they are mistaking you for someone else, or have possibly mixed your name with another person's.
Either way when you put yourself in the public spot light, it's bound to happen.
(It still feels weird though, especially when I'm walking through the grocery store in my gym clothes.)
When you're enlisted military, getting recognition is a completely different thing.
I've had friends who are members of the Navy or Marines, and they've told me how strangers treat them when they're in uniform. However dating a Dyess Airman has opened my eyes to what it's like to be approached in public.
My boyfriend is a handsome fella, at least I think so, so when he's in his civilian clothes, life is pretty normal.
When he's dressed in his fatigues however, everyone from servers to little old ladies in Walmart smile and thank him for his service to our country. He always smiles back and acts polite, but a few of his friends that are also stationed at Dyess have differing opinions.
Some of them have said they don't like it, others say it's very patriotic, while most of them say it just makes them feel a little weird.
This type of interaction doesn't happen all the time of course, just every now and then. This being a very military town, I wondered how other people, TV, military, or others feel about getting recognized for the work they do?
