University of Arkansas Celebrates Veterans With Week Of Events

A variety of events will take place celebrating veterans at the University of Arkansas starting today and running through Friday Nov. 14.

A veteran and veteran dependent financial seminar which will be open to all veterans, dependents of veterans, and ROTC cadets, Monday, Nov. 10, from noon to 1 p.m., in the Arkansas Union Multicultural and Diversity Education Conference Room, Union 404.

To RSVP at the Financial Seminar page.

The Veteran’s Day breakfast for students, faculty and staff who are Veterans will take place Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 8:30 am to 10:30 am in the Veterans Resource & Information Center, Arkansas Union 632.

A reception and a showing of movie Lone Survivor followed by a panel discussion and will be open to all students Thursday, Nov. 13, at 6 p.m. in the Poultry Science Center Auditorium.

The veteran employment service office will have a briefing open to the public on Friday, Nov. 14, at 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Commuter Lounge, Arkansas Union sixth floor west.

To RSVP go to http://www.123contactform.com/form-1125995/VA-For-VETS-Registration.

The 3rd Annual RazorVets Banquet for students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are veterans will take place Friday, November 14, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the Verizon Ballroom, Arkansas Union 6thFloor West.  The event will have a three course meal and is free for attendees.  Business formal or military dress uniform is encouraged.  The keynote speaker for the event will be U of A alumnus John Register.

To RSVP go to www.arkansasalumni.org/Razorvets14.

"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…" – with these words President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Nov. 11, 1919, as the first commemoration of Armistice Day after World War I.

On May 13, 1938, an act of Congress (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) was approved making Nov. 11 each year a legal holiday, dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as "Armistice Day." Armistice Day was primarily to honor veterans of World War I. In 1954 the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by replacing the word "Armistice" with the term "Veterans." On June 1, 1954, Nov. 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.

These campus events were planned by the Veterans Week Celebration Committee. For additional information contact Erika Gamboa at egamboa@uark.edu or 479-575-8742.