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Community celebrates veterans at ‘Honoring All Those Who Serve’ Friday morning

Jillian Flack, KSTV Reporter November 9, 2024

Students, faculty and veterans filled the Student Green for an early Veteran's Day celebration Friday. The university Army and Air Force ROTC groups stood beside local veterans for a flag-raising ceremony...

Army ROTC, Veterans Club to host Homecoming tailgate

Kathryn Monsewicz October 11, 2017

Kent State’s Army ROTC and Veterans Club will host a tailgate party in the Field House parking lot next to Dix Stadium before Saturday’s Homecoming football game.Those who come will get to know the...

Kent State Army and Air Force ROTC students salute the raising of the United States, Ohio and POW/MIA flags during the annual KSU Veteran's Day observance ceremony held Wednesday, Nov. 7 at Risman Plaza. Photo by Shane Flanigan.

Kent State named Military Friendly School for seventh year

Lauren Phillips November 23, 2015

Victory Media, the publisher of G.I. Jobs, STEM Job and Military Spouse, has named Kent State a Military Friendly School for the seventh consecutive year.Kent State is in the top 20 percent of schools...

Kent State ranks as top veteran school

Leanne O’Neill October 16, 2014

Kent State ranked in a four-way tie for 69th in the United States as a top college for veterans, according to U.S. News & World Report.The report chose the top-ranking universities based on “helping...

Model World War II plane rolls into Homecoming parade

Leanne O’Neill October 16, 2014

The Kent State's Veterans’ Club built an Air Force-themed float to display in the Homecoming parade Saturday.The float displays a P-51 Mustang-style plane, which was commonly used in World War II. A...

Kent State vets raise awareness, give clothes off their backs

Leanne O'Neill October 2, 2014

Student veterans gathered in front of the M.A.C. Center Thursday evening before stripping down to their underwear and running laps around campus, all for charity.The annual event “Clothes Off Your Back...

R.J Wilkinson, Kent State Alum and Iraq War veteran, is beginning a project to preserve the stories of war veterans because too often veterans pass away with their stories left untold.

Kent State alum has vets ‘talk war’

Mark Oprea August 27, 2014

R.J. Wilkinson, Iraq veteran and Kent State alum, is an advocate of the phrase that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.His latest project, entitled “Tell Me About The War,” intends...