{"id":20288,"date":"2006-10-18T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=20288"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:55:28","slug":"iraq-cote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2006\/10\/18\/iraq-cote\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq war veteran to speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href="https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/10\/cote.jpg"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/10\/cote.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Adam Cote\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adam Cote of Sanford, who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a member of the Maine Army National Guard, visits ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College to offer a firsthand account of his time in Iraq at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Democrats, the event is open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>Now an attorney at the Portland law firm of Pierce Atwood LLP and considered a rising star in Maine Democratic politics, Cote served with the National Guard in Mosul. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he will discuss his experiences in Iraq and administration\u00a0conduct of the war,\u00a0and will urge listeners to support Democratic candidates in the upcoming\u00a0elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to a recent survey from George Washington University, 86 percent of young voters said that a candidate&#8217;s position on Iraq will be on their minds when they vote,&#8221; says ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Democrats President Jason Buxbaum, a junior from Hillsdale, N.J. &#8220;Adam Cote will remind us that the differences between Gov. John Baldacci and his Republican opponent on this issue couldn&#8217;t be clearer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Cote of Sanford, who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a member of the Maine Army National Guard, visits ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College to offer a firsthand account of his time in Iraq at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,32,195],"tags":[1416,4472,9140],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-maine-and-new-england","category-news-politics","tag-bates-democrats","tag-iraq-war","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89901,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions\/89901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}