{"id":12187,"date":"2026-03-19T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:44:42","slug":"mowest-plans-vietnam-veterans-remembrance-day-event-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/19\/mowest-plans-vietnam-veterans-remembrance-day-event-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"MoWest plans Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day event March 27\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Vietnam-Day-banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Vietnam-Day-banner-200x74.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Vietnam-Day-banner-310x115.png 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Vietnam-Day-banner-400x148.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Vietnam-Day-banner-600x222.png 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Vietnam-Day-banner-768x284.png 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Vietnam-Day-banner-800x296.png 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/03\/Vietnam-Day-banner.png 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/>March 19, 2026&#8211;Missouri Western State University\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/military\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Center for Military and Veterans Services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is partnering with Heroes for Heroes to commemorate Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 27 in the M.O. Looney Complex. The event is free and open to the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis day provides an opportunity to recognize the courage and resilience of those who served, many of whom did not receive the welcome home they deserved,\u201d said Gabbie Falletta, director of the Center for Military and Veterans Services. \u201cIn addition to recognizing and honoring our student veterans and community veterans, the day will serve to provide them with access to support they may not regularly receive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The day will include military history displays and resource tables from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Then from 3 to 4 p.m., story time will offer a powerful space for reflection, healing, and expressions of gratitude to veterans and their families for their service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 19, 2026&#8211;Missouri Western State University\u2019s Center for Military and Veterans Services is partnering with Heroes for Heroes to commemorate Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, March 27 in the M.O. Looney Complex. The event is free and open to the public.\u00a0 \u201cThis day provides an opportunity to recognize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1797,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12189,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187\/revisions\/12189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}