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Horton hears an associate dean, and thinks of eleven very specific words

Speaking of students who are veterans, Alex Horton, whom I’ve followed since he was a bubblegum-chewing, hard-blogging infantryman in Iraq, has some interesting observations about starting as a student at Georgetown University: “… an associate dean spoke about development of the whole person, sound in spirit and mind. I could not help but think of ...

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Speaking of students who are veterans, Alex Horton, whom I've followed since he was a bubblegum-chewing, hard-blogging infantryman in Iraq, has some interesting observations about starting as a student at Georgetown University: "... an associate dean spoke about development of the whole person, sound in spirit and mind. I could not help but think of my own development on the training grounds at Fort Lewis and the rooftops of Baghdad, where notions of spirituality and existence were taught at the velocity of molten shrapnel."

Speaking of students who are veterans, Alex Horton, whom I’ve followed since he was a bubblegum-chewing, hard-blogging infantryman in Iraq, has some interesting observations about starting as a student at Georgetown University: “… an associate dean spoke about development of the whole person, sound in spirit and mind. I could not help but think of my own development on the training grounds at Fort Lewis and the rooftops of Baghdad, where notions of spirituality and existence were taught at the velocity of molten shrapnel.”

I like those last 11 words.

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1
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