So making sure that there are the right services in place to help these students adapt, to help them achieve and close the stark education gaps that exist in these communities today was a sort of call to action for a number of school districts.
It may be that the one thing keeping politicians on board our bloated and ill-managed military leviathan is knowing that their districts will get a piece of the action.
The steps that require legislative action are likely to bump up against the often-visceral opposition of lawmakers from conservative districts -- and some of their more outspoken constituents.