Jefferson LECTURE SERIES

A Forum on the Experience of Veterans in American Society

James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College

February 03, 2010 — 1:15 PM
UC Berkeley Campus

This forum is an informal follow-up to the Jefferson Lecture by historian James Wright, president emeritus of Dartmouth College, and features speakers with past and current military experience from the fields of law, history, political science, and medicine. Speakers include Jan Scruggs, president and founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

About James Wright

President Wright is recognized not only for his important scholarly writings to the field of American political history, but also for his many contributions to the welfare of American war veterans. In 2005, Wright began a series of visits to U.S. military medical facilities in Washington, D.C., where he met marines and other U.S. military personnel who had been wounded in the course of service in Iraq and Afghanistan. (He had himself enlisted in the Marine Corps for three years when he was seventeen years old. He was discharged at the rank of Lance-Corporal.) In 19 visits over four years, he has encouraged the injured servicemen and women to continue their education.

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