Gone to college, every one...
Unlike the traditional verse of the
old folk song asking "where have all the soldiers gone" with the
reply "gone to flowers every one," today's soldiers have the
highest rate of survival of any war in history. Battlefield skill
and heroics of our medics and corpsman, combined with excellent
medical care close to the area of conflict, incredible
technology that follows injuries, and the best GI Bill benefits
since WWII, lends words to a new verse "gone to college every
one."
If you are reading this, you have probably already experienced
the influx of returning Veterans. Be they recently discharged
service personnel or National Guardsman or Reserves who are between
call ups, they are all coming our campuses attempting to
gain skills and move forward with their lives.
Because of the aforementioned medical care and because of the
type of war that is being fought, we are seeing men and women in
great numbers who have been traumatically wounded, have recovered
and are left to deal with the residuals of those injuries, both
seen and unseen.
This training guide will address all who have or will come to
the education well. The proud and fit and the equally proud and
challenged. All deserve our gratitude, all require our attention,
all have earned the right to our respect, our best thinking and our
timely action.