The Daily Texan: Young vets recount deployments

Haole Wahine sent out an email with a link to an article in The Daily Texan, the student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin, in which Knox Nunnally and Hunter "Doc" Hayes, both members of Vets for Freedom, were interviewed about their experiences in Iraq.

The stories law student Knox Nunnally and history and premed junior Hunter "Doc" Hayes tell about their deployment to Iraq are the stuff of this generation's history books.

Having just graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Nunnally was in basic training on Sept. 11, 2001. Hayes had enlisted in the U.S. Navy just days before.

"When 9/11 occurred, a switch got flipped and all of us and our instructors realized that instead of just training for maybe going on a cruise to South America or whatever, we were training for the war," Nunnally said.

Go read the whole thing.

This is also apparently "the second part in a series of stories on students who are serving or have served in Iraq." The first, Student recalls stint in Iraq definitely has a different flavor than the one I've highlighted.