An elderly veteran addresses the room from the head table during a symposium session of the Special Operations Association Reunion (SOAR XXXVIII), Las Vegas, Nevada, 2014. His navy cap carries gold embroidery ending in 'FORCE' with 'PROUDLY SERVED' along the bill, the commemorative style of headwear widely worn by American service veterans. Beside him a fellow panelist listens, a table microphone and coffee cup before him. Sessions of this kind functioned as informal oral history: the association's members recounting, often for the first time in public, operations that had been classified for decades. From the personal collection of Don and Linda Engebretsen. Project: 219867