{"id":19282,"date":"2022-11-28T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=19282"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:30:51","slug":"westerns-opens-two-displays-exhibits-fir-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/westerns-opens-two-displays-exhibits-fir-veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Western opens two exhibits for Veteran&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by:<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mirella Barrera-Betancourt <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From Nov. 7 through Nov. 11, two Veteran\u2019s Day themed exhibits were displayed for the Western community.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These events were a collaboration between Western\u2019s Veterans Resource Center, Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs and Veterans of Foreign Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students who visited Hamersly Library were presented with the \u201cI Am Not Invisible\u201d Oregon Women Veterans Exhibit in the first floor lobby. The exhibition displayed portraits of courageous female military veterans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IANI is a campaign instituted in Oregon, meant to establish visibility and awareness for female veterans across the country. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there are roughly two million women amongst the Veteran population. However, many women veterans go unrecognized and many encounter barriers to necessary health care services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The USVA website states, \u201cWith support from the Center for Women Veterans, this project has crossed 50 States, 75 cities, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 27 Native American\/Alaska Native Nations to capture more than 3,200 women Veteran images.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to the IANI exhibit, the Veterans of Foreign Wars generously loaned Western veterans uniforms for their VFW Uniform Showcase. The uniforms were on display in the Werner University Center, directly across from Caff\u00e9 Allegro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Veterans of Foreign Wars\u2019 mission is to provide veterans who fought in foreign lands, water or airspace with the essential health and financial assistance needed to live comfortable lives once out of active service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Western, veterans are recognized annually through events put on by the Veterans Resource Center. Their office is located in the downstairs level of the WUC. For more information, contact them by email at wouveterans@wou.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at howlnews@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":19283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}