West Point Alumni Serve as Mentors for Wounded Warriors

Richmond Times-Dispatch By Bill Lohmann Published: December 11, 2009

Before their first meeting last summer, Brian Pearce and George Nyfeler were nervous.

"I didn't really know what we were going to get into," Pearce said.

"We probably both had butterflies in our stomachs," Nyfeler said.

They needn't have worried. They hit it off big time, sharing stories about their time in the military and just about everything else.

"It took a long time to get our stories out, and on about the fourth visit I said, 'We need to take 10 minutes at the end and jot down some potential goals,'" Nyfeler recalled with a laugh, goal-setting being one of the reasons they were getting together.