George Washington University Hatchet reporter David Ceasar reports:

Heather Bentrum and Rachel Weismann are both undergraduates with a similar interest: studying the Middle East. This summer, one chose to go to Lebanon and the other Israel.
The two students return to Foggy Bottom this week with similar stories about their time abroad: bracing for rocket and bomb strikes exchanged between Hezbollah and Israel and hoping to make it back to the United States alive.
Bentrum and Weismann were two of more than a dozen GW students studying or working in the two war-torn countries when the border conflict broke out in mid-summer. Although no one from the University was injured, according to GW, many students interviewed over the past two months vividly recall the death and destruction they witnessed firsthand.