Trč Bunker is the vice president of the Cal Veterans Group on campus. (UC Berkeley photo by Anne Brice)
Trč Bunker didn't cry at war. He served five tours in the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2012, and says he didn't have time to feel what he was doing; he just had get through each day. 'I compartmentalized a lot,' he says. 'It's all you can do. The mission goes on. It doesn't stop because you're sad.' One of his jobs was collecting human remains from the battlefield, and sending them home to their families for proper burials. Although the job was dangerous and often heart-wrenching, the hardest part started when he came back home.
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