Summary: <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Favorite Stories of 2017 - Part 1</span></h1><br> <ul> <li> <strong>January 4, Episode #1</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">- our first story! | @ 01:05</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>February 15, Episode #7 </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">- "Stories of Service" and "Family Ties" introduced by Chris Christopher | @ 02:15</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>March 8, Episode #10</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> War in the sky -The story of Baron von Zeppelin | @ 04:05</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>March 29, Episode #13</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Special Feature - about horses and mules serving | @ 07:50 </span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>April 5 and April #12 </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Episodes 14 and 15 - Commission News - In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace - with Ed Bilous and Chris Christopher | @ 11:20</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>April 26 Episode #17</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - 100 years ago this week - The selective service act of 1917 | @ 19:10</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>April 26 - Episode #17</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - War In the Sky - It turned into the world’s largest aerospace company | @ 21:05</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>May 3, Episode #18</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - Spotlight in the media - introducing Sgt. Stubby the animated film with Jordan Beck | @ 23:30</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>May 3 Episode #18 </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">From the BUZZ - Moss is mostly good with Katherine Akey | @ 28:05</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>May 10, Episode #19</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - 100 Years ago This week - For Mother’s day - Mothers in WW1 | @ 29:20</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>June 6, Episode #23 </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Commission News - A brief mission profile from Commission Executive Director - Dan Dayton | @ 35:25</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>Also June 6, Episode #23 - </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Special Feature - George Cohan’s “Over There” turns 100 - with Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten | @ 36:50</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>June 14, 2017, Episode 24</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - Spotlight in the media - Three theories on why Wonder Woman is set in WW1 |@ 43:20</span> </li> <br> <li> <strong>June 14, Episode 24</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - International Report - The Violin of Private Howard | @ 45:40<a id="more-8456071"></a></span> </li> <br> </ul><h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Overview</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - Episode #52.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This New Year’s week, and next week, we have a special 2-episode series for you. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next week marks our first anniversary for the show so wanted to share some of our favorite stories and segments from 2017 with you! </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They are presented in chronological order. Part 1 takes us into July 2017, and Part 2 through the end of the year. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are not going to spend time setting up each piece, but we will tell you the date, the episode and the article title each time - to keep it all in context.</span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the US World War One centennial Commission and the commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Military Museum and Library.</span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">See above for the list of stories</span></p><br> <h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outro</span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you for having joined us for our WW1 Centennial News New Year’s Special - The</span></p>
