What it is like to be a veteran or service member and move on to higher education. to engage with UAF student veterans about I also invite each of you to the student veteran panel on Veterans Day, Nov. Jackie Morton is the director of the Department of Military and Veterans Services To defend our country and care for their comrades serve as a reminder of the sacrifices These stories of exceptional courage and unbreakable determination I also encourage you to submit photos and stories of those veterans To see the faces of some of these stories, I encourage you to visit the UAF Honor Wall website, home to photos and captions of many veterans and military service members Their story in a box away from others, or some may share glimpses of their story. Each story isĭeeply personal, private and often emotionally complicated. Of your grandparent, parent, sibling, neighbor, professor or student. What makes Veteransĭay special isn’t the Army, Air Force, Navy or Marine Corps, but the individuals themselves.Įach veteran and military service member has their story of why they served, theirĮxperiences and how they were transformed by their service. I know Veterans Day is also important to many of you at UAF, where 15% of the studentīody is composed of veterans, military and their family members. 11 is always an important day for me - as a veteran, the daughter of a MarineĪnd the spouse of a service member, and the director of UAF’s Department of Military and Veteran Services. by Jackie Morton, director, Department of Military and Veteran Services Of Military and Veteran Services, and serves as a colonel in the U.S. She is now the director of UAF's Department The 9th Psychological Operations Battalion (A). Morton was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, with Jackie (Berg) Morton had just finished a training jumpĪt Fort Benning, Georgia.
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