A veteran’s tough love message to at-risk kids

Name: A veteran’s tough love message to at-risk kids
Uploaded: 2014-11-11T20:17:24Z
Duration: P172S
Description: Do vets coming home from the horrors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have something unusual to teach the young people of today? If you listen to West Point graduate and retired Lt. Col. David Oclander, who is now a teacher and principal-in-training at an inner-city Chicago charter school, there's no doubt they do.

Clip: Season 2014 | 2m 52s

Do vets coming home from the horrors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have something unusual to teach the young people of today? If you listen to West Point graduate and retired Lt. Col. David Oclander, who is now a teacher and principal-in-training at an inner-city Chicago charter school, there's no doubt they do.

Aired: 11/11/14

Rating: NR

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