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TRIANGLE & SITTING VOLLEYBALL KICK OFF VALOR GAMES
Triangle in partnership with the Carolina Region, USA Volleyball, and Bridge II Sport hosted sitting volleyball at the Dean Smith Center, UNC-Chapel Hill as part of the 2013 Southeast Valor Games. The Valor Games is a competitive, adaptive sport opportunity for wounded, injured, and ill Veterans and active-duty military personnel. View [PRESS RELEASE]   [NEWS14]   [ABC11]

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About Them

Cmc says:

I was a squad leader who ripped both Achilles tendons during basic. I figured I was toast. Thankfully my story was stressful in another way from yours – my squad and DI wouldn’t even entertain the notion that I would do anything less than pass with flying colors. If they wouldn’t give up on me I couldn’t give up on myself. I was pretty tough on my squad. I wanted them to be their best. I figured they’d be glad to get rid of me. I asked one of the girls who had given me the most grief, sass, and attitude why she wanted me around and she said “You’re fair, you care, and if we lose you God only knows who we’ll get.” It made me laugh and kept me going.

When I was in tech school (electronics) we had different services attending and instructing including foreign services. I was one of the first females to go through that school. Not all of the men were thrilled particularly the Middle Eastern ones (one spit on me – that was new). I just kept remembering my mother’s words “Kill them with kindness” and “It doesn’t matter what they do. You’re only in charge of you and I expect you to do the right thing.” So I resolved to be polite and attentive and do my best in spite of the fact that so many appeared to hate me and one of the instructors told me I was an idiot (I was an honor student prior to him) and there was no way he was going to pass me. I figured I had best know that material backward and forward so he had no grounds to fail me. He tried his best, but couldn’t trip me up. His parting words for that block were “I guess you’re smarter than you look.” (I was a petite curly haired blonde). I so wanted to smart off, but remembering Mom I only said “I had a good teacher.” And so I did. I learned more because I had to and not under the best circumstances, but it stood me in good stead later on. I remembered everything I learned in that block.

Words from a Veteran - 

Not a day goes by that I dont remember Sergeant Winters. 10 years later, and I still tell your story.

I can remember Operation Seahorse Wind, August 2011, right before 9/11, how you taught me more about my job than I learned in school, how you would refuse to fall out of runs, and how you snuck out in town and brought back a kegs-worth of beer to thank us for a job well done at the end of the op.

I remember just before Christmas in Pakistan, when you and the rest of the Raider team landed to relieve us so that we could spend the holidays with our family.

I remember when they called us into formation to announce the news of the crash and your passing. I remember how I cried from the depths of my soul like I had never cried before.

I remember you, and will never forget.

Vets go from the front lines to the front of the class

Greg Toppo, USA TODAY12:24a.m. EST
January 3, 2013

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Administrators are increasingly finding that many servicemembers make good teachers.



Teacher Brian Thompson works with
student Keshonda Fulmore on December 13.(Photo: H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY)

Story Highlights

• School officials push to bring vets into mainstream of
       teacher recruitment
• Teach for American has seen an increase in military candidates
       since 2009
• Unemployment rates high for Iraq and Afghanistan vets

WASHINGTON -- Stationed for 13
months along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in 2007 and 2008, Brian Thompson
had a lot of time to wonder what could come next for him.

In charge of a mortar squad with the
Army's 82nd Airborne Division, Thompson often thought he would go to law school
once his three-and-a-half years were up.

Then one day he got a care package
from his mother with a paperback copy of Teacher
Man, the third in a series of memoirs by Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt. "You would make a terrific teacher, just like Mr. McCourt," she wrote inside the book, "especially making kids laugh with that sarcastic humor."

It took more than a year, but by
2009, Thompson was standing in front of a history class at Cardozo High School
here in the nation's capital, one of thousands of newly minted teachers. On a
blustery day last month, the 32-year-old was teaching his third-period history
class about how rapid advances in weapons technology made World War I
especially deadly.

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