https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ing-an-often-overlooked-culture-the-military/
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My prayers are with you......
Push Hard, Press Forward
Must be tough to hear treehuggers badmouth the military after returning from the service. I know some of the larger universities have clubs/student associations that are composed entirely of veterans. I'm surprised such a student club is not mentioned in the article - I would imagine such a group would exist at institutions, esp in Texas.
When veterans returned from Vietnam to go to college in the late 1960s-early 1970s, they faced a good degree of hostility on campus. Anti-war sentiment became horribly twisted into anti-veteran opinion.
When veterans return from the War on Terror, they are now faced with bafflement from their fellow students. In a modern-day America where less than one percent serve in the armed forces at all, veterans are regarded as exotic, mysterious, like foreign students from a land far away. At least that what I hear.
So while the college veteran has it better in 2016 (especially with the post-9/11 GI Bill) than his counterpart in 1970, it's nowhere near the atmosphere his/her grandparent experienced in the 1940s-1950s.