Transitioning to campus

New center opens in Montview Student Union to help student veterans Liberty University heads into the fall semester with the recently opened Veterans Center, located in the Montview Student Union, providing support to the many student veterans both on and off campus. The Office of Military Affairs, according to Student veteran liaison Jon Norman, aims to work with the new […]

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Vietnam War remembered

Office of Military Affairs partners with local veteran groups to honor sacrifices The rain could not hinder the American patriotism that radiated from the corner of Ninth and Court Street in downtown Lynchburg March 27. In celebration of the 40-year anniversary of the Vietnam War ending April 1975, Liberty’s Office Of Military Affairs held a Vietnam War Commemoration event at […]

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Families hit slopes

Liberty’s Snowflex hosts Military Family Day Military personnel are on the frontlines every day in order to protect the United States and the freedom of those who live there. Many times, family members of those serving must make sacrifices as well. The Office of Military Affairs celebrated these families by hosting its semiannual Military Family Fun Day at Liberty Mountain […]

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Military affairs provides career help

Through various military workshops, seminars and other events, the Office of Military Affairs has a large impact on the Liberty University community by helping military students and vereans pursue their academic careers. Emily Foutz, the director of the Office of Military Affairs, said that she feels honored to work in the military offices. “The Office of Military Affairs considers it […]

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Military family fun day a success

Liberty University Military Affairs hosted its second annual Military Family Fun Day on Saturday, April 21. A total of 190 guests attended the event at Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre, according to Military Outreach Coordinator Kathi Edinger. Every military base in Virginia was invited to spend the day for free at Snowflex. Several military bases in D.C. and Maryland were invited […]

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Military Gala honors veterans

Military service members were honored at the military appreciation gala put on by the Concerned Women for America (CWA) at Liberty University this Veterans Day on Nov. 11, 2011. The club level of Williams Stadium Tower accommodated over 300 guests, according to Amanda Haas, president of Liberty University’s chapter of the CWA. Patrons and military members were dressed in elaborate […]

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Military Emphasis Week kicks off

They fight for freedom, sacrifice endlessly and somehow find time to fit in a quality education. Liberty University military students and veterans are being honored for an entire week this year in what the Office of Military Affairs calls Military Emphasis Week. This seven day event kicked off last week, Saturday, Nov. 5, with the military appreciation game against Virginia […]

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Military students serve fellow veterans

“It’s nice to be able to get out and talk to people who understand where you’re coming from” College life is an adjustment for many new students. More difficult courses, new people and unfamiliar surroundings can be overwhelming at first. For student veterans at Liberty, trading their combat boots for collared shirts and re-learning how to live their lives as […]

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Giving back to those who gave it all

Heroes Fund Scholarship assists wounded warriors and spouses Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, but Liberty University’s Office of Military Affairs is paying a special tribute to those wounded in combat with the Heroes Fund Scholarship. Recipients of the prominent Purple Heart, veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and widows or widowers of soldiers killed in combat are eligible to […]

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