Part of a series of graduation essays from notable New Jerseyans By Aura Dunn In my childhood home, there was an underlying tension beneath the silence following my father’s war service in Vietnam. After my parents separated and my siblings and I moved in with my father, I remember quietly paying for the family’s groceries with food stamps. I didn’t want anyone to know, so it is not something we spoke about. Breaking the code of silence in my life was important, not just for me, but also others. One of my proudest accomplishments from my time on Capitol Hill was my work on the Campus Crime Dis…