Grad Student Featured in BDN Video Series on Veteran Homecomings
Joe Miller, a University of Maine graduate student studying history, was featured in a Bangor Daily News video series on veterans who talk about what coming home meant to them. Miller, a captain in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, served three tours in Iraq, according to the report. After serving, he looked to Maine for a fresh start and chose UMaine because it was the first college where he felt welcome, and the school counted his military experience, the article states. Nicolas Phillips, a commander of the Maine Army National Guard’s 185th Engineer Support Company who served two tours in Afghanistan, also was featured in the series. Phillips, who grew up mostly in Germany with his active-duty parents, said it felt right to come to UMaine for college because his father was from Embden, Maine. Both profiles advanced a UMaine talk on veterans’ recovery from trauma by MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Shay at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, at Wells Conference Center.