{"id":94,"date":"2014-05-01T19:19:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=94"},"modified":"2018-02-08T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:38:22","slug":"bridge-named-to-honor-alumnus-for-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/bridge-named-to-honor-alumnus-for-military-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge named to honor alumnus for military service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family gathered in September to honor <strong>Col. Jerry Cashion<\/strong>, agricultural engineering \u201986, at a memorial bridge naming ceremony in Cornersville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>Cashion was born in Lewisburg, Tenn., and was a graduate of Cornersville High School. He served in the U.S. Army for 27 years and was awarded the Legion of Merit.<\/p>\n<p>Cashion earned a master\u2019s degree in military strategic studies at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. He also held a master\u2019s degree in business administration from Long Island University. Cashion was a veteran of the Persian Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a G-5 at the United States Army War College, Carlisle, a fitness instructor at the Carlisle YMCA and a member of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n<p>Cashion died Nov. 2, 2012, at his home in Carlisle, Pa. He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Cashion\u2019s family includes his wife, Kathy, and two children, Kelly and Clay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2014\/05\/cashion-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-244\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/files\/2014\/05\/cashion-resized.jpg\" alt=\"cashion-resized\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><em>At the bridge dedication, front, left to right: Annalee Hill, Cashion&#8217;s aunt; his mother, Mary Cashion; his wife, Kathy Cashion; Joey King &#8217;84; and Lucinda Hornsby &#8217;84. Back, left to right: Maj. Garry Curtis, Tech ROTC instructor, 1984-1988; Brian Higdon &#8217;86; Dan Kamunen &#8217;85; and Gary McPeak &#8217;84.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and family gathered in September to honor Col. Jerry Cashion, agricultural engineering \u201986, at a memorial bridge naming ceremony in Cornersville, Tenn. Cashion was born in Lewisburg, Tenn., and was a graduate of Cornersville High School. He served in the U.S. Army for 27 years and was awarded the Legion of Merit. Cashion earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-94","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-spring14"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}