Air Force ROTC
Army ROTC
November 6, 2019
University of Portland Air Force and Army ROTC will conduct a 24-hour vigil in honor of Veterans Day, concluding with a commemoration ceremony on Monday, November 11, at 11 a.m., at the Praying Hands/Broken Wall Memorial on the campus’s East Quad at 5000 N. Willamette Blvd. in Portland.
The 24-hour vigil will begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday, November 10, at the memorial, which honors veterans from multiple wars and their sacrifice for our nation. An Air Force and an Army cadet, representing the University of Portland’s two student ROTC programs, will stand watch over the memorial until the beginning of the Veterans Day Ceremony.
The 24-hour vigil will conclude with the playing of “Taps” during the retiring of the guard. The Veterans Day ceremony, held at the University for over 60 years, will follow. University faculty, staff, students and members of the public are invited to attend.
The ceremony will include guest speaker Elizabeth Estabrooks, a United States Army veteran. She is the Oregon Women Veterans Coordinator at the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs where she has designed and implemented outreach programs for women who have served in the military. She joined basic training in Ft. Jackson, South Carolina in 1977, and was part of the second wave of women to serve in a fully-integrated, co-ed Army. She served in Kitzingen, Germany, considered the front line of the Cold War. After leaving the Army, Estabrooks received a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Columbia University. Estabrooks advocates for policy and practices that improve the overall health of military veterans.
The original memorial was built by the University’s Class of 1948 and contained bricks inscribed with the names of the 69 University of Portland students killed in service during WWII. Later the memorial was expanded to include other wars and conflicts in which American service members and University of Portland students served, including World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf Wars. The memorial now contains the names of 80 University of Portland students who lost their lives in service to the country.
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