{"id":27428,"date":"2019-12-02T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=27428"},"modified":"2019-12-02T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:12:11","slug":"sponsor-a-wreath-honor-a-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2019\/12\/02\/sponsor-a-wreath-honor-a-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor a Wreath, Honor a Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FSC&#8217;s Office of Alumni Engagement is &#8220;on a mission to remember, honor, and teach.&#8221; They&#8217;re doing that by encouraging members of the campus community to participate in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.farmingdale.edu\/wreaths-across-america\">Wreaths Across America<\/a><\/strong>, where you are encouraged to sponsor a wreath to be placed in honor of a veteran, to &#8220;ensure that their sacrifice is remembered and passed on to a new generation of Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can honor those who served by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.farmingdale.edu\/WAA\">sponsoring a wreath<\/a><\/strong> to be laid at a veteran&#8217;s grave site at Long Island National Cemetery. Sponsorship is only $15 per wreath, and you may sponsor as many as you like. You can also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.farmingdale.edu\/WAA\">sign up to volunteer<\/a><\/strong> to lay the wreaths.<\/p>\n<p>The wreaths will be laid on Saturday, 12\/14. Sponsors and volunteers should meet at the Campus Center Lobby at 10 a.m., for coffee and refreshments. Shuttle service to the cemetery begins at 10:30 a.m., and will be available until 3 p.m. to take you back to FSC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"big description text-sm-justified\">FSC&#8217;s Wreaths Across America event is part of a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wreathsacrossamerica.org\/\">national movement<\/a><\/strong> that coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, and more than 1,600 other locations in all 50 states, at sea, and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The event is sponsored by 110 Sand Company, a sand and gravel supplier in Melville. Net proceeds will help support programs sponsored\u00a0 by FSC&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmingdale.edu\/campus-life\/student-support-services\/veterans-affairs\/index.shtml\">Office of Veterans Services.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Help spread the word. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/wreaths-across-america-revised.pdf\">Print and post this flyer.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FSC&#8217;s Office of Alumni Engagement is &#8220;on a mission to remember, honor, and teach.&#8221; They&#8217;re doing that by encouraging members of the campus community to participate in Wreaths Across America, where you are encouraged to sponsor a wreath to be placed in honor of a veteran, to &#8220;ensure that their sacrifice is remembered and passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":27614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27428"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428\/revisions\/27593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}