Free coffee for vets at bookstore

On Monday, the day before Veterans Day, Mt. Hood’s campus Bookstore is offering up a free coffee to all vets.

All military personnel, retired or serving, are qualified to get a free latte or mocha. The coffee can be of any size or flavor.

Upon receiving their free coffee, vets also will be given a pen the same color as their designated military branch. Jonathan Esterman, lead sales associate for the Bookstore, said, “It’s only a little way that we can honor (veterans), but it means a lot to them.”

Esterman said a lot of other places around don’t do very much for veterans. He called this “sad” and noted, “a lot of veterans work with the college.”

The fun does not stop with the free beverage. As a sort of camaraderie contest, each year the Bookstore sets up a board that records how many people of each branch come in to get a coffee on campus, tracking the totals.

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