IS IT JUST ME, OR DOES IT SEEM LIKE SOUTHERN STUDENTS ARE MORE NORMAL AND DECENT THAN STUDENTS IN, SAY, NEW ENGLAND? Kinda hard to imagine Yale and Harvard students doing something like this: “Alabama students raise awareness for veteran suicide in march from Tuscaloosa to Auburn.”

Student veterans in Alabama began a more than 150-mile ruck march on Wednesday from Tuscaloosa to Auburn to raise awareness for the estimated 17 veterans lost to each day to suicide.

 

The fourth annual Operation Iron Ruck — which features students from the University of Alabama and Auburn University — kickstarted outside of Bryant-Denny Stadium Wednesday in Tuscaloosa and will conclude Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn just before the rival schools’ football teams face off in the Iron Bowl.