Senior military official visits school
by Cortney Fielding
After returning from a particularly violent tour of duty in Iraq, Col. David Sutherland caught himself scanning the lakes and canals scattered across his Texas town.
The U.S. Army brigade commander wasn’t admiring the scenery. He was on alert for the bodies of murder victims, like the many he’d pulled out of similar looking waterways on the other side of the world.
“What you see impacts you; it stays with you,” said Sutherland, now a special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during an April 22 talk hosted by the USC School of Social Work at […]