NPR : A Soldier's Journey from Iraq to Grad School

NPR : A Soldier's Journey from Iraq to Grad School: "Morning Edition, November 14, 2007 · Demond Mullins spent a year in Iraq with the National Guard. When he came back, he felt alienated and angry at what he had seen and done in the war. Now Mullins has found a degree of peace in higher learning. 'Academia ... that's where I'm at,' the City University of New York grad student says. 'Right now, school, books — Weber, Marx, Durkheim — that's my medication.' That's his medication now. But if it's true that there are seven stages of grief, it's fair to say that Mullins is going through several stages of adjusting to his new life. His military transport plane brought him back in the fall of 2005. When he arrived at New Jerseys' Fort Dix, there were no bands waiting to welcome him home, Mullins says."