. . ."He said that he would have just graduated from Iowa State University if he had not gone into the Army.

"I asked him what he would be doing if he had graduated. He said, 'It would all be trivial. All trivial. I'd be buying a better car, looking for a job that would make a lot of money. It's trivial. . . ."

Read "Returning Soldier Has Much to Teach Us," by Carolyn Raffensperger, published in Mid-Iowa News, February 2007, and on the Science and Environmental Health Network website.