An attendee pauses with a drink during a social gathering at the Special Operations Association Reunion (SOAR XXXVIII), held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2014. The conference lanyard and badge holder around his neck were standard issue to all reunion registrants. Photographs like this one, taken informally in hotel function rooms between the reunion's formal ceremonies and symposia, document the social dimension of veterans' reunions -- the reconnecting and storytelling that, for many participants, is the true purpose of the annual gathering. From the personal collection of Don and Linda Engebretsen. Project: 219867