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From the barracks to the classroom: the struggles of adapting to a new life after service
Most people are told to pick their battles, but student veterans don’t have that choice, often facing the reality of feeling like a rusted knife after leaving the service. From loneliness to a lack of purpose, student veterans share their stories of going from a place where it feels like everybody has their back, to a college campus with its own battles. “Then you leave the service, and you go into the civilian world, and you go into the college campus, where it feels like nobody has your back…You’re the loneliest you’ve ever been, because it feels like nobody understands what you’ve been through before. It can be a…