Master Sergeant Janet Graves knows a thing or two about sacrificing for service. As the senior enlisted full-time manager of operations and training at Stockton’s 140th Aviation Regiment – a California National Guard unit that serves as a security and support battalion – Graves has had to miss holidays and family gatherings to perform the duties that go along with her sworn job. So on Wednesday when Graves was honored as the keynote speaker at the City of Lathrop’s annual Veterans’ Day event, she was pointed in mentioning the things that veterans do without in order to serve their country, and noted how her idea of what a veteran truly changed after coming back from an overseas deployment.