In 96 days, I'll be back on campus at my alma-mater at an extra special homecoming as Lebanon Valley College continues celebrating its 150th birthday. In honor of that countdown, here's memory #96: being a college student during war time!
I was born in the 70's ... grew up in the 80's ... and went to college in the 90's. Which means that, until the spring semester of 1991, I only knew wars of the cold variety (and, as I've shared previously in this series, those had all but thawed by my freshperson year).
Then came the (first) Gulf War. And the students in our little liberal arts school in the middle of conservative central PA had to come to terms with how we felt about it ... at least for the six weeks it lasted.
[Easter egg alert: the guy in the top photo of this page from the school paper was my third LVC roommate, as he invited me in to his place in MG103 when I returned from my semester abroad.]
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