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SPECIAL: Sacred Service If you play this episode on 11/11 starting at 10:03:30 am local, the Bells of Peace will toll at 11am exactly. Episode #148 Host: Theo Mayer This special episode brings you the sound of World War I Armistice Day Sacred Service, a multi-denominational service honoring the Centennial of the WWI Armistice, from the WWI Centennial Commission in partnership with Washington National Cathedral. ----more---- Download the Service program (a keepsake in its own right) at: https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/images/2018-ace/pdf/wwi_armistice_sacred-service_program_11_11_2018.pdf View full length unedited video of service at:  ww1cc.org/sacredservice   Special Thanks Washington National Cathedral   Sponsors: The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission The Doughboy Foundation   Production: Producer & Host: Theo Mayer

SPECIAL: First Man into Germany - And He Did it on a Harley Episode #147 SPECIAL:  First into Germany: SGT Roy Holtz - And he did it on a Harley By author Robert Laplander Read by Host, Theo Mayer Introduction | 01:55  Part 1: Yup, That’s Me! | 03:10 Part 2: It’s Off to War… | 08:25 Part 3: Rolling With the Red Arrow! | 14:25 Part 4: Oh… You’ve GOT to be kidding!? | 20:05 Part 5: The Real Story Behind the Picture. | 27:10 Epilog | 32:50----more---- RELATED LINKS Rob Laplander Links https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Laplander/e/B06W5MR685%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share  https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/1953-four-questions-for-bob-laplander-of-finding-the-lost-battalion-and-doughboy-mia.html  http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lostbattalion  https://www.facebook.com/robert.laplander  https://www.wsj.com/articles/doughboy-mia-makes-sure-missing-world-war-i-heroes-get-recognition-1495443601  https://www.army.mil/article/189688/volunteer_doughboy_team_works_to_brin

WWl Through Many Lenses Host: Theo Mayer Bells of Peace 2019 - Host | @02:05 The Cultural Impact of WWI - Dr. Jay Winter | @05:05 Japan’s Impact on WWI - Dr. Frederick Dickenson | @11:55 The Impact of WWI on the World - Sir Hugh Strachan | @19:50 Speaking WWI: Tank - Host | @27:15 WWI War Tech: Many lenses looking - Host | @28:55 They Shall Not Grow Old: A vision realized - Brent Burge | @33:10----more---- SPECIAL Commission News Bells of Peace 2019 & Bells of Peace Participation App - Host Link: http://ww1cc.org/bells https://tombguard.org/centennial/#national_salute  World War One Then Historians Corner: The Cultural Impact of WWI - Dr. Jay Winter Links:http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-morrison-winter-20140625-column.html http://www.dw.com/en/world-war-i-created-new-culture-of-mourning/a-17233945 https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-War-between-History-Century/dp/0300110685 Japan’s Impact on WWI - Dr. Frederick Disckenson Links:http://www.history.upenn.edu/publications/2001/frederick-r-dickinso

Overtures To Peace & Baseball Episode #145 Host: Theo Mayer Overtures to peace - Host | @01:30 Atrocities in Syria - Mike Shuster | @08:20  America Emerges: Sgt. Alvin York - Dr. Edward Lengel | @13:00 Remembering Veterans: Charles Edward Dilkes - Dr. Virginia Dilkes | @20:45 Speaking WWI: Teddy Bear Suit - Host | @28:05 Historian’s Corner: Baseball in WWI - Jim Leeke | @31:20 100C/100M: Springdale PA - Mayor Jo Bertoline & Patrick Murray | @37:50----more---- World War One Then 100 Years Ago  https://nyti.ms/2C0dzub https://nyti.ms/2CtilRK https://nyti.ms/2CsOhG6 https://nyti.ms/2CtE0JK https://nyti.ms/2CsJCUp https://nyti.ms/2CtFrrp https://nyti.ms/2CrI0KF https://nyti.ms/2BZNzib https://nyti.ms/2BZNURZ https://nyti.ms/2C0YJnc https://nyti.ms/2CsA7ES https://nyti.ms/2BWtPw6 https://nyti.ms/2BYSZdx https://nyti.ms/2BVm2i9 https://nyti.ms/2CtdmR8 https://nyti.ms/2CsoOMK https://nyti.ms/2CsZmqm https://nyti.ms/2CvMnUQ https://nyti.ms/2BYdtmt https://nyti.ms/2C1RlHQ https://nyti.ms/2CrsVsn https://nyti

October 1918 & The Lost Battalion  Episode #144 Host: Theo Mayer October 1918 Overview Roundtable - Dr. Edward Lengel & Katherine Akey | @02:15 Historians Corner: Lost Battalion - Ron Laplander | @18:25 Shifting sands and hard fighting - Mike Shuster | @25:10 Remembering Veterans: Story of John Foster - Mark Foster | @29:40 US Army CMH WWI Website - Dr. Erik Villard | @35:00 Spotlight On The Media 1: Dr. Edward Lengel | @40:15 Spotlight On The Media 2: Lost Battalion Documentary - Mark Fastoso & John King | @42:50----more---- World War One Then October 1918 Roundtable: Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey, Host Historian Corner with Rob Laplander https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Lost-Battalion-Legends-Americas/dp/1411676564 https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/doughboy-mia-home.html  World War One Now Remembering Veterans https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/commemorate/family-ties/stories-of-service/4382-john-chester-foster.html https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/commemorate/family

FOCUS ON: The New WWI Memorial Episode #143 Host - Theo Mayer Announcement: Bells of Peace 2019 | @ 01:10 NCPC Design approval | @ 03:35 Why we MUST build this  - Terry Hamby | @ 06:20 If not YOU then WHO? - Edwin Fountain | @ 08:25 Why a Nat. Memorial in KC and DC? - Dr. Mathew Naylor | @ 11:50 The Memorial in the Park - Edwin Fountain | @ 14:30 The International Design Competition - Host | @ 16:40 “And the Winner is:” - Joe Weishaar & Sabin Howard | @ 18:00 Interpretation & Education - Dr. Libby O’Connell | @ 24:20 “A Soldier’s Journey” - Sabin Howard | @ 28:35 Where Tradition and the Future Meet - Sabin Howard | @ 33:45 Dizzying Parallel Tracks | @ 42:10 “And the Bronze Metal goes to…”  - Steve Maule | @ 44:20 Final Design - APPROVED - various | @ 51:10 The First Mile and the Last Mile: Fundraising - Edwin Fountain | @ 53:30 PODCAST NOTES National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C. Design package http://ww1cc.org/memorial-design    Living Memorial - A Special Introduction https://vimeo.com/299480300

Highlights: Dr. John Morrow: Lifetime Achievement Episode #142 Host - Theo Mayer Posts raising money for Nat. WWI Memorial - Derek Sansone & David Hamon  | @ 02:10 100 Years ago - Host | @ 08:55 Born in the Month of September - David Kramer | @ 16:30 Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing - Dr. John Morrow | @ 22:50 The Buzz: Selected Posts from the Internet - Host | @ 37:15----more---- Opening Century In The Making Posts Raising Money for the National WWI Memorial Ken-Ton Bee article https://www.kentonbee.com/articles/town-resident-raising-funds-to-support-wwi-memorial-project-in-washington/ Derek Sansone Email: KillerBee05@hotmail.com David Hamon Email: David.hamon@worldwar1centennial.org  World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago Sources   New York Times Archive (paid)Feather weight cars https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser 09/30/1919 page 11 Official Bulletin - President urges congress to pass Suffrage https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/educate/places/official-bulletin/3557-ww1-official-bulle

FOCUS ON: The Animals of WWI Host - Theo Mayer Breaking News: CFA’s final approval of Memorial design- Host | @01:25 Horses in WWI - Cindy Rullman & Joe Ellen Hayden | @05:05 Pigeons in WWI - Andrew Blechman | @12:20 Dogs and Mascots in WWI - Jacy Jenkins & Jordan Beck | @21:00 Legless, Wingless critter serving in WWI - Leah Tams  | @30:25 ----more----  PODCAST NOTES Download approved Memorial Design  http://ww1cc.org/memorial-design    Brooke USA web site http://ww1cc.org/horses    Sources Nalewicki, Jennifer, “The Animals that Helped Win World War I,” Smithsonian, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/animals-that-helped-win-world-war-I-180963042/   Tams, Leah, “How Did Animals (Even Slugs) Serve in World War I?” National Museum of American History, https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/how-did-animals-even-slugs-serve-world-war-i   World War One Centennial Commission Episode 13 https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2106-ww1-centennial-news-ep

Highlights: The American Worker & WWI Episode #140 Host - Theo Mayer Government, Industry & Labor in WWI - Host | @ 05:15 Labor Gains & Labor Losses - Dr. Mark Robbins | @ 10:05 A Century in the Making: Article by Traci Slatton- Host | @ 19:20 Historian's Corner - Col. Michael Visconage, USMC (ret.) | @ 30:15 The Buzz: Posts from the internet - Host | @ 39:05----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago The American Worker & WWI   Sources Helgeson, Jeffrey, “American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900-1945,” Oxford Research Encyclopedias https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-330 Keir, Malcolm, “Post-War Causes of Labor Unrest,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1919, pp. 101-109,  https://www.jstor.org/stable/1014423 Mintz, Steven, “Historical Context: Post-World War I Labor Tensions,” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/historic

FOCUS ON: The Non-Combatants of WWI Episode #139 Host - Theo Mayer Unprecedented  logistics - Joe Johnson | @ 05:00 The US Army Signal Corps - Host | @ 09:15 The Hello Girls - Dr. Elizabeth Cobb | @ 11:30 Medical Support Services & the AFS - Nicole Milano | @ 15:50 The US Postal Service in WWI - Lynn Heidelbaugh | @ 22:15 The Stars & Stripes - Robert Rheid | @ 25:40 The Doughboy’s Sweetheart: Elsie Janis - Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 28:15 Bringing Soldiers to God and God to Soldiers - Dr. John Boyd | @ 32:05 Donuts and Coffee - Patri O’Gan | @ 34:25 ----more---- FOCUS ON: The Non-Combatants of WWI Sources Terrett, Dulany, “The Signal Corps: The Emergency (to 1941),” The Army Signal Corps, https://history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-16/CMH_Pub_10-16-1.pdf   DARPA https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/about-darpa   Gray, Andrew, “The American Field Service,” American Heritage, December 1974, https://www.americanheritage.com/american-field-service   “World War I Rations:  Full Belly, Fully Ready,” Army Heritage Educ

Highlights: War Football & The NFL Episode #138 Host - Theo Mayer 100 Years Ago: Woodrow Wilson’s last chapter - Host | @ 02:15 A Century In The Making: From the Sabin Howard Sculpture Studio - Host | @ 12:15 Remembering Veterans: Camp Doughboy “4” - Kevin Fitzpatrick | @ 13:45  Spotlight on the Media: “War Football: World War I and the Birth of the NFL” - Chris Serb | @ 22:30 Articles & Posts: Weekly Dispatch - Host | @ 34:50 ----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago Woodrow Wilson’s last chapter - Host Sources Dorsey, Leroy G., “Woodrow Wilson’s Fight for the League of Nations: A Reexamination,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, pp. 107-135 Spring, 1999 (Vol. 2, No. 1) https://www.jstor.org/stable/41939493?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents    Glass, Andrew, “Wilson Collapses During Western Tour: Sept. 25, 1919,” Politico, September 25, 2017 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/25/this-day-in-politics-sept-25-1919-243039   Lynn, Kenneth S., “The Hidden Agony of Woodrow Wilson,” The Wilson Quarterly, Win

Highlights: American Legion Post #43: Revitalized and Relevant Episode #137 Host - Theo Mayer 100 Years Ago: Headlines last week of August 1919 - Host | @ 02:15 Born in the Month of August- Dave Kramer | @ 09:05 Remembering Veterans: American Legion Post 43 Revitalized - Fernando Rivero & Lester Probst | @ 14:45  Articles & Posts: Dispatch Newsletter - Host | @ 32:55----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago: Headlines last week of August 1919 - Host Sources Carnegie’s Estate, At Death, Worth About $30,000,000, New York Times, August 29, 1919, p. 1 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/29/issue.html “Pershing Rejects Call to Testify,” New York Times, August 31, 1919, p.1 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/31/109332474.html?pageNumber=1 “Pershing Rank Bill to Pass Tomorrow, Washington Post, August 31, 1919, p. 1 https://www.nationalgeographic.org/events/event/explorer-trivia-night-f19/ Girl Ordered Shot Arrives here Safe”, New York Times, August 26, 1919, p. 6, ht

Highlights: The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay Episode #136 Host - Theo Mayer 100 Years Ago: The Turning Tide - August 1918 - Host | @ 02:10 100 Years Ago: The Aftermath - August 1919 - Host | @ 07:20 Remembering Veterans: The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay - Daniel J. Basta | @ 09:25  Commission News | @ 22:05 Spotlight on the Media: “Over There with Private Graham” - Steve Badgley, Bruce Jarvis | @ 24:55  Articles & Posts: Weekly Dispatch - Host | @ 35:55 “Making History”: The Hello Girls Cast Album -Music Snippet | @ 42:55 ----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago The Turning Tide - August 1918 - Host The Aftermath - August 1919 - Host Sources St. John, Rachel, “The Raging Controversy at the Border Began with This Incident 100 Years Ago,” Smithsonian Magazine, July 2018 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/raging-controversy-border-began-100-years-ago-180969343/ “Our Cavalry Pursues Bandits in Mexico,” New York Times, August 20, 1919, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/08/20/issue.html M

Highlights: Focus ON: War in the Sky Episode #135 Host - Theo Mayer SPECIAL: Focus ON: War in The Sky Introduction - Host | @ 01:45 Balloonatic: James Allen Higgs Jr. - Host | @ 04:35 Erwin Bleckley & the Lost Battalion - LtCol Doug Jacobs USA (Ret.) | @ 08:05 WWI War Tech: Interrupter Gear - Host | @ 13:50 PTSD in WWI Pilots - Mark Wilkins | @ 16:40 Eddie Rickenbacker Profile - Host | @ 23:30 Quentin Roosevelt Killed - Host | @ 26:05 New Memorial to WWI Airmen - Michael O’neal & Robert Casperzack | @ 28:05----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago This Week Segment - Host | @ 02:00 Links: Episode 86: https://www.ww1cc.org/episode-86 War in the Sky Timeline: http://ww1cc.org/warinthesky   https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/news/2017/05/26/above-the-battlefields-of-world-war-i/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observation_balloon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_military_ballooning#World_War_I https://mashable.com/2016/03/02/wwi-balloons/#nGRfpJmxX8qR https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/world-war

Highlights: American Philanthropy & WWI Episode #134 Host - Theo Mayer 100 Years Ago: American Philanthropy and WWI - Host | @ 02:00 A Century of the Rockefeller Foundation - David Rockefeller Jr. | @ 09:20 Commission News: Focus on the Memorial - Host | @ 17:00 Remembering Veterans: Americans All - Nancy Gentile Ford | @ 19:10 Articles & Posts: Weekly Dispatch - Host | @ 30:40----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago This Week American Philanthropy and WWI - Host | @ 02:00 Abrahamson, Eric John, Beyond Charity: A Century of Philanthropic Innovation, Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Series, https://assets.rockefellerfoundation.org/app/uploads/20131001184008/Beyond-Charity.pdf.pdf   “The Rich History of Philanthropy, NPR https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5516260   Kelly, Matt, “U. Va. Professor Uncovers the Rich History of Philanthropy in America,” UVA Today, January 23, 2012, https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-professor-uncovers-rich-history-philanthropy-america   “A Histo

Highlights: WWI Remembered in KC & DC Episode #133 Host - Theo Mayer How Treaties Are Created - Host | @ 02:23 Food Sales at Post Offices - Host | @ 08:50 National WWI Museum and Memorial in KC - Dr. Matthew Naylor | @ 10:55 Doughboy Foundation - Dan Dayton | @ 21:20 Born in the Month of July - Dave Kramer | @ 31:30  Articles & Posts: Weekly Dispatch - Host | @ 34:35----more----   World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago This Week Peace Treaty and Senate Confirmation - Host Sources “The Senate’s Role in Treaties,” The U.S. Senate: Art and History, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Treaties.htm “Open Treaty Hearings Begin Tomorrow,” New York Times, July 30, 1919, p.1 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/07/30/issue.html War Surplus Food - Host Sources “U.S. Army Will Sell Surplus of Food in Post Offices,” New York Times, July 31, 1919, p. 1 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/07/31/issue.html “Promise Quick Action to Punish Profiteers,” Seattle Star, Aug

Highlights: Red Summer Riots 1919 Episode #132 Host - Theo Mayer 100 Years Ago: Red Summer Riots - Dr. Jeffrey Sammons | @02:10 Great War Project: Retrospective - Mike Shuster | @15:15 Introducing the A.E.F. Memorial Corps - Host | @25:15 New Digital Download: Hello Girls Single - Host | @27:35 Articles & Posts: Weekly Dispatch - Host | @31:00----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago This Week Red Summer 1919 - Dr. Jeffrey Sammons https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/jeffrey-sammons.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sammons https://www.meridian.org/profile/dr-jeffrey-sammons/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/about/the-commission/advisory-boards/historical-advisory-board.html http://ww1cc.org/valor  Henry, Charles, “Remembering the Red Summer of 1919, UC Berkeley Blog, https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2019/03/02/remembering-the-red-summer-of-1919/ Klinker, Adam, “The Legacy of 1919,” Creighton Magazine, https://www.creighton.edu/creighto

Highlights: Monumental Scale!  Episode #131 Host - Theo Mayer 100 Years Ago: Let Me Count The Ways - host | @02:15 A Century In The Making - Sabin Howard | @14:40 Education: NHD WWI History Award Winner - Tim Proskauer | @25:25 Articles & Posts: Weekly Dispatch - Host | @37:45----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago This Week Let Me Count The Ways - Host WWI - Where the money came from and what it bought? Links “The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary,” U. S. War Department, Statistics Branch of the General Staff, http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/docs/statistics/statstc.htm#2    “The War with Germany “ charts, maps and diagrams https://archive.org/details/warwithgermanyst00ayreuoft/page/n5  “Official Report Issued Yesterday, Graphically Shows America’s Part in the War, New York Times, June 27, 1919 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/06/27/issue.html    Savell, Stephanie, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/03/21/we-have-spent-32-million-hour-war-2001   “Disposal of Surp

Episode #130 Host - Theo Mayer 100 Years Ago This Week: Ike’s Big Road Trip - Host |@ 01:50 Remembering Veterans: Veterans History Project - Col Karen Lloyd USA (ret.) |@ 11:15 Spotlight On the media: Ernst Jünger Documentary - Elsa Minisini |@ 22:20 Articles & Posts - Weekly Dispatch - Host |@ 33:55 World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago This Week Ike’s Big Road Trip Sources Highway History, Federal Highway Administration, https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/history.cfm Pfeiffer, David A.,  “Ike’s Interstates at 50,” Prologue Magazine, The National Archives of the United States, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/summer/interstates.html Klein, Christopher, “The Epic Road Trip that Inspired the Interstate Highway System, https://www.history.com/news/the-epic-road-trip-that-inspired-the-interstate-highway-system Thompson, Helen, “How a Hellish Road Trip Revolutionized America’s Highways,” Smithsonian, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1919-ike-took-hellish-road-trip-across-us-180956284/

Highlights: 4th of July, 1919 Episode #129 Host - Theo Mayer 4th of July, 1919 - Host |@ 02:05 Extra Extra: The Treaty is signed - Mike Shuster |@ 08:40 The WWrite Blog - Dr. Jennifer Orth-Veillon |@ 14:00 Bladensburg Peace Cross - Host |@ 25:50 Articles & Posts - Host |@ 31:15----more---- World War I - THEN 100 Years Ago This Week First July 4th post- Armistice - Host Special Report by David Kramer “A Champion is Born,” Toledo Blade, June 26, 2019 https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/monday-memories/2016/07/04/A-champion-is-born/stories/20160703203    “Plans Completed to Make Tomorrow ‘Greatest Fourth,’” Washington Herald, July 3, 1919 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1919-07-03/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=06%2F25%2F1919&index=2&date2=07%2F05%2F1919&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=1&words=4+July+th&proxdistance=5&state=District+of+Columbia&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=July+4th&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1    “All Ready