The Pacer

Issue date: 3/27/07 Section: Campus News

Every day thousands of Americans serve our country and fight for the freedoms that we cherish and sometimes take for granted.

Thomas Fulcher, a senior Public Relations major, is going to do his job and serve his country at war. Fulcher has been a Marine now for a few years and does not regret his decision on joining at all. The service that he and his colleagues provide is done with nothing expected in return. Fulcher will be leaving April 12 for Camp Lejeune which is located in North Carolina. There he will be performing drills and going through extensive training to prepare him for what he is to face ahead of him. He won't actually leave for Iraq until sometime in August. He is part of the infantry division of the Marines and his platoon is going in and relieving another unit that has been stationed there for awhile. He doesn't actually know where exactly in Iraq he will be going but he does know that it is one of the hot spots.

Being a senior, Fulcher, like any other senior, is looking forward to graduation. He is scheduled to graduate in May and will do so. The only difference in him and the rest of the graduating class is that he won't be here to walk the line. In order for him to still receive his diploma despite his absence, he has to finish all the requirements expected of any graduating senior, only early. He has to have all those requirements done and turned in before he leaves which is over a month before he would be graduating.
"The rush to finish up all my classes has been hectic at times, but the professors have done their best to help me with finishing up my final requirements early," said Fulcher.

The UTM community has been supportive in helping Fulcher with any needs that he has and for that he is deeply grateful.

Therefore, if you see Fulcher on campus greet him, help him, and most of all, thank him.

For it is people like him that go and fight thousands of miles away so we can feel safe here in America.

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