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Interesting article in todays Washington Post. Up front I think that there are some definite challenges to anyone who is deferring going to college, just because of the age difference between them and their classmates.To then add to that the abrupt change from deployed service member in a combat zone to full time student at a typical college must be a huge mental hurdle.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...be-difficult/2011/10/20/gIQAugW54N_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...be-difficult/2011/10/20/gIQAugW54N_story.html
...“It’s lonely,” said Walter Sweeney, a 25-year-old freshman whose introduction to George Mason was orientation with 18-year-olds who didn’t know quite what to make of him. “I’ve been to war, and it’s a very maturing thing to go through,” Sweeney said, adding that trying to explain his six years in the Marines hunting pirates off the coast of Somalia and surviving heavy combat in Afghanistan is “like trying to describe sex to a virgin.”...