Hey, Ohio State, ya handed the Nittany Lions their collective ass last weekend, but do you have a class program that can inspire projects like this one?
“I hadn’t interacted a whole lot with other veterans and so I wasn’t sure how I was going to react,” said [David] Walker, a former specialist in the U.S. Army. “I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel.”
Pundits and politicians usually tell the story of the Iraq War. The stories of the veterans themselves — the people who lived the war — are so often missing, and veterans are not often given the forum or the time to share their experiences.
Students were not required to share their own stories but if they wanted to, the framework was there.
“We were careful not to pressure them to share anything they did want to; rather, we trained them to work with other veterans to tell their stories,” said Nathan Tobey, coordinating producer at WPSU and course co-instructor.
Is this the same Penn State which hosted professor how-to videos on how to handle angry vets?
I know, how wonderfully contradictory, eh?