Top row, left: Masa Kenney in Iraq; right: Geoff Noer in the Faroe Islands. Middle row, left: Tim Holtan in Vietnam; right: Corey Flournoy, national president of Future Farmers of America. Bottom row, left: Josh Fine running a one-man college radio network in the 1992 presidential campaign; right: Toni Gorog in Brazil.Adults who took time off between high school and college look back from middle age and praise those breaks as being instrumental in shaping them.