Horton hears an associate dean, and thinks of eleven very specific words

Speaking
of students who are veterans, Alex Horton, whom I've followed since he was
a bubblegum-chewing, hard-blogging infantryman in Iraq, has some
interesting observations about starting as a student at Georgetown
University: "... an associate dean spoke about development of the whole
person, sound in spirit and mind. I could not help but think of my own
development on the training grounds at Fort Lewis and the rooftops of Baghdad,
where notions of spirituality and existence were taught at the velocity of
molten shrapnel."

I like those last 11 words.