Posted on Jun 10, 2017
Semper Fidelis: UVA Alum Looks Back on War, Writing and Healing
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"Years before he would lead hundreds of Marines through a seven-month deployment in one of the most volatile and violent regions of Afghanistan, Seth Folsom was a third-year student at the University of Virginia, working on a paper.
The topic: the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and how it compared to the American war in Vietnam.
“If somebody had told me when I wrote that paper that 20 years later I was going to be in Afghanistan fighting a counter-insurgency, I would have told them that they were on drugs,” Folsom said recently."
The topic: the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and how it compared to the American war in Vietnam.
“If somebody had told me when I wrote that paper that 20 years later I was going to be in Afghanistan fighting a counter-insurgency, I would have told them that they were on drugs,” Folsom said recently."
Semper Fidelis: UVA Alum Looks Back on War, Writing and Healing
Posted from news.virginia.edu
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On a side note SFC (Join to see), IVA Charlottseville is where i had my spine surgery in Feb 2016. Was down there for a week and went for followup appointment in may. They did a great job on my major surgery and the campus is beautiful, designed and laid out by Thomas Jefferson.
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Wow that's great! Not the surgery part, that's a hard surgery to have. But that you were able to see the campus.
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