Summary: <h1>Highlights</h1><br> <ul> <li>Financing WWI - Reaching for the stars | 01:55</li> <br> <li>The 369th hits the front lines | 08:30</li> <br> <li>The British Struggle continues - Mike Shuster | 10:40</li> <br> <li>The Yankee Division learns at seicheprey - Dr. Edward Lengel | 15:10</li> <br> <li>A century In the Making - The maquettes get busy | 21:00</li> <br> <li>“Lest We forget: The Great War” - Kenneth Clarke & Michael Robbins | 25:05</li> <br> <li>How to teach about WWI - Dr. Ian Isherwood | 32:30</li> <br> <li>Speaking WWI - Pilates | 38:25</li> <br> <li>100 Cities / 100 Memorial in Jackson, TN - Dr. Alice-Catherine Carls | 40:25</li> <br> <li>WWI War Tech - Carrel-Dakin Antiseptic | 45:55</li> <br> <li>The Weekly Dispatch Newsletter overview | 47:50</li> <br> <li>The Centennial In Social Media - Katherine Akey | 50:25<a id="more-9386851"></a> </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 #67 - 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;">This week our guests include:</span></p><br> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog updates us on what the UK Forces are up against both on the front and in recruitment </span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Edward Lengel with the story of the US Yankee Division as they enter serious battle. </span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kenneth Clarke and Michael Robbins introduce a pictorial book, a perfect souvenir of the centennial from the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the US WW1 Centennial Commission - Lest We Forget: The Great War</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Ian Isherwood shares his experience in creating a WW1 educational programme structured around a soldier’s letters</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Alice-Catherine Carls, the project instigator for the 100 Cities/100 Memorials project from Jackson, Tennessee and the local research the project spawned</span></li> <br> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Katherine Akey keeps us in Tennessee with a social media post about a great commemoration event.</span></li> <br> </ul><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All this and more... on WW1 Centennial News -- a weekly podcast brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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;">Just one year after the declaration of war, 100 years ago, it is time for the third Liberty Loan drive to raise money to pay for the war effort.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me put the Liberty Loan drive into perspective for you.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In early 20th century thinking, Woodrow Wilson’s government was completely clear that the war would be financed by money raised specifically for it. And a majority of that money was to come from the American People - ordinary citizens. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By contrast, today in our late 20th /early 21st century, money for our wars and military expenditures are financed from a big boiling cauldron called the national debt. Today the average American Citizen feel litt</span></p>
