Claire, I found your connection to both alternative service breaks and Bryan Stevenson's speech thought-provoking. Although many people, including myself, connected the cave dwellers to ourselves and our beliefs, you were able to go beyond that and link it to people and opportunities that can lift people out of the cave. I agree with your point about Bryan - through his advocacy for our most vulnerable citizens, he is doing his part to make the world a better place by revealing the underlying injustice interwoven in our nation's story. I, too, am intent on taking an alternative service trip before I graduate. Although media outlets do cover societal problems, nothing can compare to going to the area (whether domestically and internationally),
