Summary: <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highlights</span></h1><br> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">1917 key events in review |@ 01:30</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wilson’s 14 points |@ 07:50</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crisis for the allies - Mike Shuster |@ 11:45</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Century in the Making - Sabin Howard |@ 16:45</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking WW1 - Tank |@ 25:00</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Education Program - Dr. Libby O’Connell |@ 26:30</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">100 Cities / 100 Memorials Round #2 deadline |@ 32:40</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Chaplains Corps in WW1 - Dr. John Boyd |@ 33:15</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">American Women Physicians in WW1 |@ 39:10</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">PAFA at Frist |@ 40:30</span></li> <br> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Buzz - Katherine Akey |@ 41:15<a id="more-8600862"></a></span></li> <br> </ul><h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opening</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to World War 1 centennial News episode #54 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today is January 12th, 2018 and our guests this week include:</span></p><br> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Shuster discussing the situation facing Allied forces at the outset of 1918</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Master sculptor Sabin Howard telling us about how, meeting a man named Richard Taylor is transforming his approach to creating the sculpture for the National World War One Memorial in Pershing Park </span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Libby O’Connell speaking with us about the commission’s Education program </span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr John Boyd with the history of chaplains in the Armed Forces during WWI</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And Katherine Akey, with the Buzz - with some great selections from the centennial of WWI in social media </span></li> <br> </ul><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. Welcome to the show.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[MUSIC]</span></p><br> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preface</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You know---- Our way-back machine not only travels in time, </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">but also in space </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">so as we roll back 100 years, but are also going up to 10 thousand feet to get a high level view of what happened in 1917 and a glance into the future for what to expect for this upcoming year --- in the war the changed the world!</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[SOUND EFFECT]</span></p><br> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">World War One THEN </span></h1><br> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">100 Year Ago This Week</span></h2><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[MUSIC TRANSITION]</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking back across 1917 from way up here, we can see: </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wilson being sworn in as the President who promises to keep us out of the war, </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">but events early in the year,</span></p>
