When my classmates and I were grinding through U.S. History in high school and hit the Vietnam War in the final weeks before the exam, we had only been fighting in Iraq for about a month.

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My classmates and I, being the youngest of the young, remained uniformed college students for the longest period, while those who were only a year or so older went off for officer training and preceded us into those terrifying island battles which marked the last stages of the Pacific war.

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My fellow classmates asked questions, and I hung on every word she spoke as she opened up her feelings about the case to us.

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Teenagers these days certainly look more mature than I and my classmates were at that age.

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At Yale, a lot of the courses I took involved complex math and public policy (many of my classmates from Yale went onto careers in non-profit organizations).

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So that's what I made my name over to be, and it was fine until my classmates learned to read and swear.

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