{"id":6514,"date":"2021-09-11T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2021-09-11T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T13:00:24","slug":"patriot-day-commemoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/patriot-day-commemoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot Day commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Patriot-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Patriot-Day-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a wreath-laying from a previous Patriot Day.\" class=\"wp-image-6515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Patriot-Day-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Patriot-Day-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Patriot-Day-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Patriot-Day.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year for Patriot Day, Mizzou hosts a public tribute and wreath-laying ceremony in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 individuals who lost their lives on September 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, to honor the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of 9\/11, Mizzou has partnered with the City of Columbia for a <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.missouri.edu\/event\/patriot_day_ceremony_3150\">special event<\/a>. A first for our campus and broader community, this event includes a presentation of the colors by the Joint Services Color Guard and City Honor Guards on Francis Quadrangle, as well as a helicopter flyover by MU Health Care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am honored that Provost Latha Ramchand will be speaking on behalf of our university. The Mizzou Football Team and I will be standing with our Tiger family in spirit from Kentucky. Because no matter where we are in the world, we commemorate this day as a proud community of Tigers \u2014 to remember those we lost and recommit ourselves to building a better world in their honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year for Patriot Day, Mizzou hosts a public tribute and wreath-laying ceremony in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 individuals who lost their lives on September 11. This year, to honor the 20th anniversary of 9\/11, Mizzou has partnered with the City of Columbia for a special event. A first for our campus and broader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}