The concept of the desert as a source of food fascinated me because I had spent some months of army service in North Africa and two years at New Mexico State teaching horticulture. (fieryfoodscentral.com)
After leaving school, he enrolled in a degree course at Ohio State University to study fine art, although his studies were interrupted by a 3 - year period of army service. (visual-arts-cork.com)
Jackson's window, in similar vein, recalls his teaching at Virginia Military Institute, his U.S. Army service in the Mexican War, his praying during the Civil War, and his own reception into eternal Glory after his battlefield wound. (firstthings.com)