![]() ![]() Judy’s journey mirrors Dragonette’s experience at NIU – arriving on campus as a nursing major on a U.S. 14, which ultimately leads to her being forced to make a life-altering decision. She secretly joins the campus counterculture on her 19th birthday, Sept. By the fall of 1969, she starts questioning the war and her role in it. The book, which took 12 years to write, chronicles the inner struggle of Private First Class Judy Talton, who arrives on campus on a military scholarship which is her only means of attending college. There were riots and for two days we camped on the bridge near the lagoon. “Like other college campuses across the nation, NIU was enraged. ![]() “I was a student during two pivotal events – the first draft lottery in 1969 and the Kent State shooting in 1970,” she said. ![]()
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