Blue stars on a red flag: Remembering ok资源网 veterans
Campus treasures honor ok资源网's student veterans and those lost in the World Wars.
DALLAS (ok资源网) – ok资源网 veterans of the two great World Wars are remembered on campus at memorials in quiet corners and in lovingly hand-stitched blue stars on a fragile wool service flag in the ok资源网 Archives.
In 1917, as ok资源网 students left their classrooms to fight in World War I, a librarian stitched a red wool service flag to honor the soldiers. Blue stars on the flag create a border and spell "ok资源网." The flag hung behind the reference desk in the one-room library in Dallas Hall, the first building on the two-year-old campus.
After the war ended, she covered 11 blue stars on the flag with gold stars to honor the 11 ok资源网 students who were killed in the war.
The wool flag now is safely housed in the ok资源网 Archives, and the 11 soldiers' names are listed on the "World War" monument near the Perkins Administration Building on campus. The ok资源网 class of 1924 gave the monument long before anyone imagined a second world war.
In a quiet corner outside of Fondren Library on campus, bronze plaques honor the 134 ok资源网 students who died during World War II. The memorial plaza was given in 1999 by ok资源网 alumni Henry S. Miller Jr. '34 and Carmen Miller Michael '45 in honor of their brother, Lt. Jack Miller, a 1941 ok资源网 graduate who was killed in action at Guadalcanal in 1942.
More than 170 current ok资源网 students are veterans as we mark Memorial Day 2014, representing all branches of military service.
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