{"id":1044,"date":"2022-09-09T13:06:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:20:15","slug":"mcc-presidents-tribute-to-9-11-victims-and-heroes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/09\/mcc-presidents-tribute-to-9-11-victims-and-heroes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC President\u2019s Tribute to 9\/11 Victims and Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_558\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-558\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/DeAnna-Burt-Nanna_-headshot_MCC_2020-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. DeAnna R. Burt-Nanna<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It has been 21 years since the tragic events of 9\/11. For 20 years, students, faculty and members of our Monroe Community College family have gathered on 9\/11 to remember the lives lost and to honor the heroism shown on that day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MCC has become a place to gather and to remember on 9\/11. Through the efforts of our alumni, our community partners and our students, we were able to create a monument that honors the fallen and remembers the heroic. Our current student leaders are committed to ensuring the tragedy of that day is not forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the daughter of a Korean War veteran, I join the College community in remembering those we lost and in honoring the heroic efforts of the first responders on that day, and on so many days that followed. I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to service members who answered the call of duty, and to their sacrifices, to ensure our safety and freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; DeAnna R. Burt-Nanna, Ph.D.<br \/>\nPresident, Monroe Community College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the daughter of a Korean War veteran, I join the College community in remembering those we lost and in honoring the heroic efforts of the first responders on that day, and on so many days that followed. I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to service members who answered the call of duty, and to their sacrifices, to ensure our safety and freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-9-11"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}