Former Marine wants more vets in college

Former Marine wants more vets in college
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jan 19, 2008 16:10:59 EST

HANOVER, N.H. — Former Marine Brendan Hart is on a new mission — to get more veterans to college, especially those have been injured.

The Dartmouth College student is one of three former Marines on campus. He’s working with a program of the American Council on Education that reaches out to recent veterans to try to get them into college.

“Our country has an untapped resource in the service members who are transferring out” of the military, said Hart, who served in the Marines from November 2003 to November 2006.

World War II veterans were called the Greatest Generation because “when they came back they were educated,” Hart said. “Now these guys transferring out have to fight tooth and nail to get into schools they may not want to go to.”

With hundreds of thousands of troops circulating through Iraq and Afghanistan, “we have the same opportunity now” as the country did in the 1940s, Hart said. Not getting more veterans into school, he said, is doing the country a disservice.


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