{"id":41398,"date":"2016-05-31T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=41398"},"modified":"2016-05-31T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:31:28","slug":"veteran-storytellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/31\/veteran-storytellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran storytellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21, Nischwitz Field hosted the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball team. The players were greeted by cheering fans, American flags and representatives of Wright State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/veteran-and-military-center\">Veteran and Military Center<\/a> (VMC).<\/p>\n<p>The VMC\u2019s Veterans\u2019 Voices project interviews veterans who are willing to tell their battlefield story and then edits the footage so that it can be archived and preserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could probably use my wildest imagination and try to come up with some elaborate story as to what these gentlemen and ladies have been through,\u201d said David Morse, an Air Force veteran and Wright State junior working on the Veterans Voices project.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/05\/league-of-their-own-2\/\">Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball team<\/a> is comprised of competitive, athletic veterans and active-duty soldiers who have lost limbs. Over the years, the squad has battled able-bodied teams at more than 150 venues in 35 states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting the public to be aware of what veterans go through and what they were doing. I think it\u2019s important to bring awareness,\u201d said, Jeniffer Seavey, Veterans\u2019 Voices project coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball team was greeted by cheering fans, American flags and representatives of Wright State\u2019s Veteran and Military Center.  <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/31\/veteran-storytellers\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":41399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,2039,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-military-veterans","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41401,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41398\/revisions\/41401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}