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FromWW1 Centennial News


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Get Ready Training Camp, boys | War in The Sky | Naval Reserve Act |Thingumyjig | Penrose Vass Stout | 1918 Eclipse and more...

FromWW1 Centennial News

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Aug 18, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Highlights
Getting ready for training camp  - War Department issues 30 lesson manifesto |@02 :00
RG Head on the War In The Sky - 1917 overview |@06:00
Richard Rubin & Jonathan Bratton on the Storyteller & The Historian on the Naval Reserve Act |@12:40
Mike Shuster on the war in the middle east |@18:45
Speaking WWI: “Thingumyjig” |@25:20  
Anne Taylor & Ruth Edmonson Johnson on 100 Cities / 100 Memorials |@26:20
Professor Jeff Jakeman on Penrose Vass Stout: Aviator, architect and artist |@32:15
The eclipse of 1918: What comes around, comes around |@37:00
Susan Werbe on telling the WWI  story with the voice of people |@37:50
And more...----more----
Opening
Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 News NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.
Today is August 16th, 2017.
We have a big lineup today with six guest joining us. You’ll hear from…
RG Head, former Air Force General, fighter pilot, author and historian  
The Storyteller and the Historian, Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten   
Mike Shuster from the great war project blog,
Ann Taylor and Ruth Edmonson Johnson from the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Jackson, California
Jeff Jakeman, Professor Emeritus from Auburn University
And Susan Werbe (WERBY), independent scholar and artist
 
WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host.
World War One THEN
100 Year Ago This Week
Preface
The following section comes from the headlines and pages of the Official Bulletin - the government’s daily war gazette published by George Creel, President Wilson’s Propaganda Chief - We are republishing the daily issues on the centennial anniversary of their original publish dates at ww1cc.org/bulletin.
So for those who would like to follow the events of 100 years ago in the words and headlines of the times, as presented by the US government, we offer a unique and powerful way to follow the War That Changed the World.  We have the link in the podcast notes.
 
So now let’s jump into our wayback machine and take a look at one of the themes that pervaded the official bulletin 100 years ago this week.
link:http://ww1cc.org/bulletin
 
[MUSIC TRANSITION]
It’s the week of August 12, 1917. Starting on the Monday of this week the Official Bulletin launches a new series of articles - 30 lessons issued by the War Department over five weeks - written for the benefit of men selected for service.
The lessons are informal in tone - and designed to “define” the image and more importantly - the “Self Image” of the American Soldier. It is philosophy, attitude, behavior, morality, personal hygiene and more…
It is a manifesto for what it means to be an American Soldier…
Listen to a few random excerpts taken from the first 6 lessons…
 
From Lesson 1: Your post of Honor
Quote: Other things being equal, an army made up of self-reliant, thinking men has a great advantage over a merely machine like army, and this is especially true in present-day warfare.
Quote: The American soldier fights fairly and treats even the enemy with as much humanity as his own conduct will permit. As for slaughtering or enslaving the civilian population of captured territory, attacking prisoners, or assaulting women, American soldiers would as little commit such crimes in time of war as in time of peace.
Quote: America has fought always and everywhere in defense of principles and rights—never merely for territory and for power.
[DING]
From Lesson 2: Making good as a soldier:
Quote: Loyalty, obedience, and physical fitness are the three basic
qualities essential to the making of a real soldier.
[DING]
Lesson 3: Soldierly qualities
Quote: Intelligence, cleanliness, cheerfulness,confidence, spirit, tenacity, strength and self-reliance are the qualities of an American Soldier
[DING]
Lesson 4: Getting r
Released:
Aug 18, 2017
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WWI Centennial News - The Doughboy Podcast is about what happened 100 years ago during and after the War that changed the world and how those changes still echo in our daily lives.