Rendering Honor The Forum, the school’s swirling hub, is not often still. But it came to a quiet stop last February, when nearly 100 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan currently studying at the Kennedy School and Harvard Business School were honored. “At a time when the country is engaged in an increasingly divisive war…it is nonetheless true that in this war, very much unlike the Vietnam War, we are showing a better side about thanking people for service,” said David Gergen, professor and director of the Center for Public Leadership, who moderated a discussion by veterans.