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New Group Will Help Veterans Go Back to School

September 20, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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Moving from high school to college is hard. Moving from war to college can be even harder. To smooth the transition, U.S. military veterans at the University of Massachusetts have organized a new support group, reports the Daily Collegian. "I never wanted an education so bad until I got deployed," said one organizer. But an education can be difficult after a military service, said the student, who was deployed in Kuwait and Iraq before coming to UMass.

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