Dogfood

For a long time I kept quiet about my experiences as a veteran because I thought I had something to loose. I was afraid of burning bridges, but the fact is that you don’t fall as fast or as far as I do unless there was never a bridge in the first place. As an ambitious …

Memorializing

Just outside Duke Chapel, there is a war memorial to Duke alumni who were enrolled in at least two consecutive semesters and died while serving our country. It rests atop a wall built in 1993 to display the names of alumni killed in WWII. New brass panels were installed in January 2010 to list additional names, grouped …

Exclusion – Part II

Recently, I discovered that the Exclusion of veterans by Duke administrators at every level extends beyond just the lack of a center or dedicated veteran staff. The exclusion, which may be totally unconscious, was maybe most egregious in the university’s “Bias and hate Taskforce” final report, but it reaches seemingly to every corner of Duke …