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In 2012<\/a>, we told you about Baylor grad\u00a0and staff member Frank Jasek\u2019s 15-year journey to tell the stories behind Baylor\u2019s memorial lampposts<\/a>. The resulting 300+ page book, Soldiers of the Wooden Cross<\/a><\/em>, details\u00a0the lives of 145 Baylor alumni killed in service during World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Iraq war.<\/p>\n Taking the project a step further, Jasek decided to\u00a0funnel proceeds from sales of the book into the Soldiers of the Wooden Cross Scholarship fund. This past summer, Jasek and his wife, Janet,\u00a0presented the fund\u2019s first scholarship to a Central Texas native, Maverick Weidman<\/a>, whose father, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers all served our country.<\/p>\n And Jasek\u2019s support for Baylor veterans goes even further. Students in the Baylor Veteran and Educational and Transition Services<\/a> (VETS) program will soon have a space of their own — a lounge area on campus, where they can\u00a0meet with others who have gone through similar experiences.\u00a0As part of the book project, Jasek created oil paintings to help illustrate the stories; his latest work,\u00a0unveiled Thursday at a Veterans Day Ceremony<\/a>, will soon help decorate the Baylor VETS’ new space.<\/p>\n \u201c[The lounge] gives the veterans a chance to get together,\u201d Jasek says. \u201cThey have a hard time coming back, you know. They\u2019re 25, maybe older, and coming into a college campus. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s pretty hard for them to do that. So they get a place to gather and visit and come back to civilian life and not be afraid of getting shot at. It\u2019s hard for those guys to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n As time goes on, Jasek says, he\u2019ll likely add more stories to the book. \u201cFrank’s amazing work with Soldiers of the Wooden Cross is a fantastic lens into the great military service legacy that we have here at Baylor,\u201d says Kevin Davis, Baylor VETS program manager. \u201cWith all of the other wonderful things that Baylor does, I think we can easily walk by our lampposts or Ring of Honor and forget this legacy of service.\u201d<\/p>\n This Veterans Day — or any day of the year — take some time to read the lamppost plaques all across campus, and take Jasek\u2019s book with you. Remember those who served, and continue to honor them.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Frank Jasek!<\/p>\n You might also like:<\/em><\/strong> In 2012, we told you about Baylor grad\u00a0and staff member Frank Jasek\u2019s 15-year journey to tell the stories behind Baylor\u2019s memorial lampposts. The resulting 300+ page book, Soldiers of the Wooden Cross, details\u00a0the lives of 145 Baylor alumni killed in service during World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Iraq war. Taking the project a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-extraordinary-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*\u00a0Amidst personal crisis, this\u00a0veteran\u00a0learned the true meaning of \u2018Baylor family\u2019<\/a> (Nov. 2016)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0Since 1946, Baylor\u2019s memorial lampposts have honored those who served our country<\/a> (May 2015)<\/em>
\n*\u00a0A Bear whose actions at Normandy in WWII merited the Bronze Star<\/a> (June 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"