On the Tuesday before Veterans Day, Colby Howard, a Marine Corps veteran, was struggling to wrap up preparations for the flag raising ceremony on Copley lawn that he had been planning single-handedly for a week. When he had a spare moment, he sat down to talk with another student veteran who was considering re-enlistment.
Managing to stay casual and friendly despite the seriousness of the topic, Howard, who served eight years in the Marine Corps, including two deployments in Iraq, advised him to stay out.
“You don’t want to do that, man,” he said with a bit of a laugh.
The vice president of Georgetown University Student Veterans of America, Howard performs a multitude of tasks, including organizing the school’s main Veterans Day event, advising fellow student veterans, and even guiding prospective student veterans who are thinking of attending Georgetown.
But at almost any other university in the country, these veteran-related services would be handled by the school’s administration.
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