{"id":3311,"date":"2022-09-16T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:22:56","slug":"students-and-first-responders-climb-steps-in-veterans-memorial-stadium-to-honor-9-11-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/09\/16\/students-and-first-responders-climb-steps-in-veterans-memorial-stadium-to-honor-9-11-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and first responders climb steps in Veterans Memorial Stadium to honor 9\/11 victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the 21st anniversary of the September 11th attacks, <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University&#8217;s<\/a> Air Force ROTC joined forces with local first responders to honor those who lost their lives in the World Trade Center Attacks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They climbed the steps of Veterans Memorial Stadium in tribute to the steps climbed in the World Trade Center by first responders on September 11th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We do it to pay our respects because it was took a lot of bravery and courage to do what they did,&#8221; says TROY ROTC Cadet Brendan Carney. &#8220;So doing this helps us pay our respects to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students and Troy first responders gathered at Veterans Memorial Stadium to climb 110 flights of stairs simulating the steps firefighters made to rescue survivors from the Twin Towers a total of 343 fighters lost their lives during the attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Savannah&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 21st anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Troy University&#8217;s Air Force ROTC joined forces with local first responders to honor those who lost their lives in the World Trade Center Attacks. <\/p>\n<p>They climbed the steps of Veterans Memorial Stadium in tribute to the steps climbed in the World Trade Center by first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/09\/16\/students-and-first-responders-climb-steps-in-veterans-memorial-stadium-to-honor-9-11-victims\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1014,668],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-11-memorial","tag-troy-afrotc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}