Episode #24, Flag Day 1917-like not other, Wondering about Wonder Woman, Liberty Bonds rock it, The violin of Private Howard, AND more
Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> 100 Year Ago: Flag Day 1917 like no other |@ 00:45 <br> 100 Year Ago: First Liberty Bond drive big success |@ 02:30<br> Guest: Mike Shuster - Pershing Arrives in Europe |@ 09:15<br> Guests: Eileen Dumont & Paul Callens on Ralph Talbot |@ 13:00<br> Feature: The Storyteller and The Historian: on the selective service |@ 19:00<br> PTSD Month: Charles Whittlesey’s Suicide |@ 26:45<br> Education: Edu-Newsletter “Animals at War” comes out |@ 28:30<br> Feature: The Violin of Private Howard |@ 32:15 <br> Media: Wonder Woman - Three theories on why it’s set in WW1 |@ 34:00<br> Instagram: Pershing Pic hit on social media |@ 39:00 <br> <br> And much more….<br> <br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War One Centennial News. It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Today is June 14th, 2017 and I’m Theo Mayer - Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host.<br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> We have gone back in time 100 years and on June 14, 1917 - it’s FLAG Day. And it is a flag day, like no other in history. <br> The Washington Herald writes:<br> “Never has there been such a Flag Day fete before, and it may be centuries before it occurs again, but the deed was accomplished, despite the setting. The President has spoken.”<br> Though America had declared war on Germany, the real enemy on this Flag Day seems to be the weather.<br> Storm gale winds and heavy rain threatens what is supposed to be a major event in the nation’s capital planned with a 600 voice choir, a huge audience including government employees, who have a ½ day off so they can join the festivities - All to frame a rousing speech by President Woodrow Wilson about the war.<br> The herald article captures the moment with: <br> “Nature Allied with the German Autocracy yesterday in a futile effort to block the delivery of the most sensational war statement to the American People ever heard from the lips of a President!”<br> Streets flooded, flags were ripped out of their holders and one man died in the gale while President Wilson braved the storm, shuning an umbrella and delivering a rousing speech against the gale.<br> It all seemed somehow prophetic and appropriate.<br> Then at the end of the day, it was announced that Liberty Loan drive had not only met it’s goal, but had exceeded it!<br> On this Flag day in 1917 it feels like nothing can or will dare stop the Yanks.<br> Link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/13/flag-day-in-1917-was-like-no-other/<br> Official Bulletin<br> We are going to pick up on the Liberty Loan drive by exploring this week’s pages of the “Official Bulletin”, the government war gazette published by George Creel, America’s propaganda chief, under the orders of President Wilson. We are pulling from Volume 1 - Issues 27-32 <br> The pages of the Bulletin are filled with an all-out - last minute effort - in promoting the Liberty Loan bonds as this first national fund-raising program comes to a close this week:<br> [sound effect]<br> <br> Dateline Monday June 11, 1917<br> Headline: BELLS TO RING OUT CALL FOR LIBERTY LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS<br> The story reads:<br> “The US Treasury Department issues the<br> following:<br> The pendulum of time is to swing back to 1776 and once again to the inscription on the old liberty bell : <br> ‘Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto the inhabitants thereof,’ <br> It is - to call Americans to service in the cause of freedom.<br> <br> In every city, town, village, and hamlet "from every mountain side," the summons to every American shall ring. Beginning to-day (Monday) the bells in churches, schools, courthouses, and town
