{"id":150200,"date":"2024-05-10T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=150200"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:01:40","slug":"wright-state-to-host-march-honoring-military-personnel-and-first-responders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/05\/10\/wright-state-to-host-march-honoring-military-personnel-and-first-responders\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State to host march honoring military personnel and first responders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_150214\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/05\/10\/wright-state-to-host-march-honoring-military-personnel-and-first-responders\/carry-the-load\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-150214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150214\" class=\"size-large wp-image-150214\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/05\/Carry-the-Load-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-150214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State community members are invited to welcome Carry the Load walkers with a clap-in at 8 a.m. on May 16 at the Captain Sean L. English Champion Garden on the Dayton Campus.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/public-safety\">Department of Public Safety<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/veteran-and-military-center\">Veteran and Military Center<\/a> will honor the nation\u2019s fallen heroes during a special program at 8 a.m. on Thursday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State will host representatives of Carry the Load, which honors first responders and U.S. military personnel who have died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State community members are invited to welcome the Carry the Load relay team and walkers with a clap-in at 8 a.m. at the Captain Sean L. English Champion Garden outside Allyn Hall and the Veteran and Military Center on Wright State\u2019s Dayton Campus.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its Midwest Ruck to Remember tour, Carry The Load will march from Fairborn Fire Station 3 to the Champion Garden on May 16.<\/p>\n<p>A brief program will follow before Carry The Load walkers depart for the Dayton National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carrytheload.org\/\">Carry The Load<\/a> organizes an annual national relay traveling 20,000 miles in all lower 48 states, culminating with a Memorial Day weekend march in Dallas. The relay is divided into five routes, with Wright State in the Midwest route.<\/p>\n<p>The Captain Sean L. English Champion Garden celebrates those who support \u2014 or champion \u2014 veterans, including other veterans, family members, faculty, staff and those who work with them.<\/p>\n<p>The garden is <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/01\/10\/veteran-and-military-center-champion-garden-named-in-honor-of-late-wright-state-rotc-graduate\/\">named in honor of Shawn English<\/a>, a 1999 Wright State Army ROTC graduate who was killed in action in Iraq in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>A bench in the garden memorializes Christopher Roche II, who worked in the Veteran and Military Center as a student and died in 2020. Roche majored in cyber security and served in the U.S. Navy before transferring to the Navy Reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Carry The Load is a nonprofit organization that raises awareness of the meaning of Memorial Day and provides ways to honor and remember the sacrifices of military personnel, veterans, first responders and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State community members are invited to welcome Carry the Load walkers with a clap-in at 8 a.m. on May 16 at the Captain Sean L. 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