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Honoring Veterans subject of Conversations Project
Thursday, November 1, 2007
The Valparaiso University Conversations Project will continue its annual programming with a Nov. 7 discussion exploring the experiences of veterans returning from the various fronts in the war on terror.
“Honoring Our Veterans: Theory and Practice,” will take place 7 to 9 p.m. in the Christopher Center Community Room and is free and open to the public. Panelists will start a conversation about problems faced by returning veterans, including coping with physical and mental injuries and reintegrating into civilian society.
Panelists will include Early McDowell, a veteran of the Vietnam conflict and member of the Portage Veterans of Foreign Wars; Capt. Nathan Harlan of the U.S. Army; and Jill Carley, director of programs for the Illinois and Indiana Veterans Administration Clinic.
Audience members will be encouraged to share their own experiences relating to returning veterans and raise questions about the challenges of supporting deployed soldiers and their families.
The goals of the Conversations Project are to promote mutual education, understanding and political reconciliation through dialog, and to forge connection between the University and Northwest Indiana community. The program is supported by the Valparaiso Project on Civic Reflection.
For more information about the Conversations Project, contact Jeremy Telman, associate professor of law, at (219) 465-7811 or visit www.valpo.edu/organization/conversation.
Other Conversations Project discussions being held this year are “35 Years of Roe v. Wade: Commemorate or Commiserate …,” Jan. 22; “Primary School: Lessons from the Presidential Selection Process,” Jan. 30; and “Forty Years Gone: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Many Guises of Prejudice,” April 3.
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