{"id":6662,"date":"2021-11-10T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2021-11-10T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:29:32","slug":"honoring-our-mizzou-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2021\/11\/10\/honoring-our-mizzou-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring our Mizzou veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Memorial-Union-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Memorial-Union-flag-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Memorial Union with an American flag.\" class=\"wp-image-6695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Memorial-Union-flag-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Memorial-Union-flag.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you\u2019ll join me for our <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.missouri.edu\/event\/wreath_laying_and_reception\">Veterans Day wreath laying ceremony<\/a> tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 11) from 12:30-2 p.m. under the Memorial Union archway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year, our community gathers on this day to honor the sacrifice and dedication of our many student-veterans. This fall, we will also shoot a group photo to show our support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou is committed to our military students and their families. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/veterans.missouri.edu\/\">MU Veterans Center<\/a> offers support and camaraderie, while our <a href=\"https:\/\/law.missouri.edu\/veterans-clinic\/\">MU Veterans Clinic<\/a> provides free legal services to veterans at MU and throughout the local community. We were also honored to be recently designated by the Military Times as a school <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2021\/university-of-missouri-included-on-military-times-best-for-vets-list\/\">Best for Vets<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please come show your support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you\u2019ll join me for our Veterans Day wreath laying ceremony tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 11) from 12:30-2 p.m. under the Memorial Union archway. Every year, our community gathers on this day to honor the sacrifice and dedication of our many student-veterans. This fall, we will also shoot a group photo to show our support. [&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-6662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662","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=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}