Student Veterans

Not that long ago, she was making copies in the UT women’s studies department when a student approached her. The girl, around 19 herself, wanted to know about Iraq. “Did you see a lot of death?’” the student asked. Corbin was floored. “I saw dead bodies on the road, in pictures, it was all over,” she explained, pausing for a moment as she recalled the scene. “I said, ‘Well, it’s everywhere.’ I did not know how to answer that, and that just sort of crystallized the college experience for me as a veteran on campus…It was definitely an intense need to know, but just not being aware of what’s appropriate to ask at a copy machine.”

Matt Mireles is a junior at Columbia University majoring in political science. He is glad no one introduces him as the guy who has killed people before.

Corrections: The print version of this story inaccurately refers to the "International Socialists Organization." The organization is called the “International Socialist Organization.” The print addition also references the organization’s newspaper as “The Social Worker” not the "Socialist Worker,” as it should be called. Current regrets these errors.

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