{"id":983,"date":"2019-07-17T18:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/news-archives\/veterans-day-observance\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:19:05","slug":"veterans-day-observance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/veterans-day-observance\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 WCSU holds Veterans Day Observance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"sharingTools\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/sharingtools.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"breadcrumb\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/breadcrumb.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0\">WCSU holds Veterans Day Observance<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><strong><br \/>&#013;<br \/>\n  DANBURY, CONN. <\/strong>\u2014 Students, faculty and staff gathered on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, to recognize and thank veterans for their service on Veterans Day with a ceremony that featured the hanging of dog tags on a tree outside Warner Hall on the Midtown campus. The dog tags were made by students and community members and dedicated to specific service members in their lives. The tree will stand as a reminder of the bond the citizens of the United States share with the men and women of the Armed Forces. During the ceremony WCSU President Dr. John B. Clark spoke as well as John Cummings, president of the Student Veteran\u2019s Organization; vice president Sarah Cummings; and Dr. Sharon Young, a professor of Social Work and adviser to the student veterans.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\"><em>Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England\u2019s best small private universities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebookShare\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/facebookshare.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;\n        <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#013; &#013; WCSU holds Veterans Day Observance &#013; &#013; DANBURY, CONN. \u2014 Students, faculty and staff gathered on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, to recognize and thank veterans for their service on Veterans Day with a ceremony that featured the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-983","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}