{"id":18571,"date":"2011-10-12T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T16:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=18571"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T16:56:42","slug":"several-veterans-events-planned-during-veterans-week-at-college-of-the-ozarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2011\/10\/12\/several-veterans-events-planned-during-veterans-week-at-college-of-the-ozarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Veterans Events Planned During Veterans Week At College of the Ozarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Several Veterans Events Planned During Veterans Week At College of the Ozarks<\/strong><br \/>\nBy: Matt Farmer <\/p>\n<p>During Veterans week, College of the Ozarks will honor American veterans with the dedication of Veterans Grove Plaza, special guest speakers, and other events November 9-11.  <\/p>\n<p>The Veterans Grove Plaza is an expansion of the Veterans Grove.  It will display flags representing each branch of the military, as well as the American Flag. <\/p>\n<p>Veterans Grove honors World War II veterans who have participated in Patriotic Travel with College of the Ozarks students.  Each Veteran is honored with the planting of a Sugar Maple, which is aligned with others to create the same unique pattern of the marble crosses at the American cemeteries in Europe.  Next to each Sugar Maple is a bronze marker with a Veteran\u2019s name. <\/p>\n<p>The events begin Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 9:30 a.m., with a Special Forces A-Team lecture and display at The Keeter Center\u2019s Royal Oak Forum.  <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Nov. 10, at 9:30 a.m., Pearl Harbor witness and survivor Dorinda Nicholson will speak about her memories of the attack.  A World War II mini-reunion begins at 4 p.m. Both the lecture with Dorinda Nicholson and mini-reunion will take place in the Royal Oak Forum.  At 6 p.m., College of the Ozarks will dedicate the Veterans Grove Plaza on the Alumni Center lawn.  <\/p>\n<p>The events conclude Friday, Nov. 11 at 1 p.m. in the Royal Oak Forum with presentations from Paramount\u2019s Vice President of Productions Stratton Leopold, New York Times best-selling author David Perlmutt and Charlie \u201cTwo Shoes\u201d Tsui from the true story Charlie Two-Shoes and The Marines Of Love Company. <\/p>\n<p>All the events are free and open to the public.  For more information, please call the Public Relations office at (417) 690-2212. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Veterans Events Planned During Veterans Week At College of the Ozarks By: Matt Farmer During Veterans week, College of the Ozarks will honor American veterans with the dedication of Veterans Grove Plaza, special guest speakers, and other events November 9-11. The Veterans Grove Plaza is an expansion of the Veterans Grove. It will display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[12,16,71,7,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}