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Kentuckians at War

A WEKU Veterans Day Special: 11-11-11

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Phillip McKenzie is enrolled at the University of Kentucky where’s he’s studying business management.
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Travis Martin earned a master’s degree in English literature at Eastern Kentucky University. The 26 year-old is currently a P-h-D candidate at the University of Kentucky.
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Former Marine and world traveler Rocco Pepe’s an officer with the Georgetown/ Scott County Emergency Management Agency. Pepe graduated with honors from Eastern Kentucky University, majoring in Homeland Security.
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28 years old, Stephanie Murphy still has one foot in the military…a member of the Kentucky Air National Guard…and the other foot in medicine as a graduate student in the physician’s assistant program at the University of Kentucky.
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Today Jeremy Bowen is far from the horror of war and Fallujah. He’s a graduate student at UK, working on a degree in social work with an emphasis on alcohol and substance abuse.
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Jonathon Herst, who lost a leg in Iraq, is finishing work on a Master of Social Work degree at UK.
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Eric Perry continues to put to use skills learned in the Navy. He’s enrolled at the University of Kentucky, studying mechanical engineering. And’s he’s still in the Navy Reserves.
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24 year-old Noah Melgar studies agricultural economics at U-K.
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The 23 year-old Brandon Lawrence is human/environmental sciences and psychology major at the University of Kentucky.
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23 year-old Rebecca Stinsky is enrolled at the University of Kentucky, majoring in Social Work.

Veterans of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home.  Withdrawals are underway in both countries.  While the wars are winding down, their legacy will live on in America through their veterans.   Over the last ten years, an estimated two-point-three million Americans fought in those wars.  Today, we hear about their experience through the stories told by eight Kentuckians.

These eight Kentuckians now attend college and their stories were gathered by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky.