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SUMMARY:The WFA East Coast Branch Fall 2025 World War I History Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Program \n \nThe Fall 2025 World War I History Symposium\nSaturday\, 25 October 2025 – Maryland Veteran’s Museum\, Newburg Maryland \n \nJoin Us For An Exciting Day-Long Program in World War I History! \nThe symposium will also include lunch\, refreshments\, museum entrance\, and private book sales and table displays of WW1 memorabilia (by members) \nGeneral Information \nWHEN:  Saturday\, 25 October 2025.  Sign-in\, refreshments\, meet-and-greet/icebreaker begin at 8:30 with Opening Remarks at 9:30 \nWHERE:  Maryland Veteran’s Museum\, 11000 Crain Highway\, Newburg\, MD \nCost:  $25 per person\, $15 students. WFA members receive 20% off the registration fee. Becoming a Member of the WFA has never been easier – visit: www.westernfrontassociation.com.  The registration fee includes entrance to the museum\, programmed speakers\, breakfast treats\, lunch\, drinks\, and snacks throughout the day. \nDisplay Tables:  There are display tables available for WW1 artifacts/memorabilia/books.  Please indicate on the registration form if you would like one. \nParking:  Free parking is provided on site \nMuseum: Entrance to the museum is included in the conference fee; time is allotted to visit. \nVirtual: A virtual option will be offered at the standard conference free.  Please annotate if you desire that on the registration form. \nWalk-ins:  Allowed\, but have to wait for pre-registered people to be served lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\nTime\nSession\n\n\n\n\n0830\nWelcome/Registration hour\, breakfast snacks\, juice\, coffee\, fruit\, artifacts display\, ice-breaker\, exercise\, book sale\, book raffle\n\n\n0930\nWelcome by Mr. Greg Goodell\, President\, East Coast Branch\, WFA\n\n\n0935\nDr. Linda Jantzen\, Colonel\, USA Retired\, National Defense University: Military Communication in World War I\n\n\n1035\nDr. Dianne Smith\, Lieutenant Colonel\, USA\, Retired: The Military Transformation of Virginia in WWI\n\n\n1130-1200\nVisit Maryland Veteran’s Museum WWI gallery\n\n\n1200\nLunch\n\n\n1300\nJoe Vollenburg\, Maryland Veteran’s Museum: Gas Warfare on the Western Front\n\n\n1350\nDr. Mitchell Yockelson\, US National Archives: 47 Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in WWI\n\n\n1445\nBreak\n\n\n1500\nKeith June\, Colonel\, USA\, Retired: 371st Infantry Regiment in World War I\n\n\n1530\nJari Villaneuva\, Doughboy Foundation:  Military Bands in World War I\n\n\n1625\nClosing Remarks\, Mr. Greg Goodell\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister by Email:\n//Copy this portion for email \nSymposium Registration Form \n(Please copy\, fill out\, and return by email with your payment)) \nName (s): \nEmail: \nAddress: \nTelephone: \nCheck one:    In person_______     Virtual _______ \n# _____ Adults @ $25 for pre-registration ($30 for walk-ins) \n# _____ WFA Member Adults @ $20 ………………………________ \n# _____ Students @ $15 ……………………………………. ________ \n# _____ WFA Member Students @ $ 12 ………………….. ________ \nTotal Amount   _______ \nPaying by ______Venmo   _______Check \n_______ I would like a display table for my WW1 memorabilia/books to sell \nPlease include one interesting fact about yourself no one else knows. We will use these during the ice breaker at the beginning.  For example\, I played trombone in the University of Nebraska band. \n__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \n//End of copy portion to email for registration \nRegistration Methods:\nPlease register by email at info@wfaeastcoast.org\, copying and attaching the registration portion.  Registration deadline: 23 October 2025. If you miss the deadline but would like to attend\, please contact Dianne Smith at dianne_smith48@hotmail.com.  \nPayment Methods: \nPayment by Venmo: Please submit payments to the Branch Chair: @Greg-Goodell indicating name and number of attendees. \nIf you are registering close to the cut off date\, please pay by Venmo. \nPayment by Mail: Please make checks payable to “WFA East Coast” and mail payment to: \nKarl Klusewitz\n8820 Walther Blvd.\nApt. 2208\nParkville\, MD 21234-9045 \nPlease include number of registrants and their names in Memo on checks. Allow time for your check to arrive before the registration cutoff. \nPayment at the door in cash only. \nThe East Coast Branch of the Western Front Association is a private non-governmental organization which receives no outside funds.  If you would like to make a donation to support administrative costs\, avoid possible deficits on events\, and hopefully sponsor WWI-focused community projects in the future\, please use the Venmo account and annotate “non-conference donation”. Such donations have been tax deductible the past; not sure how recent legislation will affect that.) \nShow your support. Get your exclusive poppy lapel pin at the Doughboy Shop today!
URL:https://staging.doughboy.org/event/the-wfa-east-coast-branch-fall-2025-world-war-i-history-symposium/
LOCATION:Maryland Veteran’s Museum\, 11000 Crain Highway\, Newburg\, MD\, 11000 Crain Highway\, Newburg\, MD\, 20664\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bells of Peace Ceremony 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Doughboy Foundation will sponsor the annual Bells of Peace Ceremony on Tuesday November 11\, 2025\, starting at 11:00 a.m. EST with prelude music by the American Expeditionary Forces Band Brass Quintet starting at 10:45 a.m. at The National World War I Memorial in Washington\, DC\, located on Pennsylvania Ave between 14th and 15th streets. The ceremony is free and open to the public\, or can be watched via livestream on our Youtube channel. \nBells of Peace commemorates the end of World War I and honors the 4.7 million Americans who donned the uniform and the 116\,516 who lost their lives in that conflict. November 11 is now Veterans Day\, a day to recognize all military Veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Originally called Armistice Day\, the date marked the end of hostilities in WWI and is observed as Remembrance Day in other countries. \nAt the National WWI Memorial\, while honoring our Veterans\, we will also honor and uphold the original purpose of November 11 through a multi-national commemorative ceremony\, and observe the day by remembering the 4.7 million American military members who served in WWI and all those from other nations who served alongside them. \nThe Bells of Peace Ceremony will be live-streamed starting at 1045 am\nCLICK HERE FOR THE LIVE STREAM\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel and click to enable notifications. \nView the event details \nRSVP for the Bells of Peace CeremonyThis event is free and open to the public.\nYou can also view the live-stream by clicking HERE \nThe Doughboy Foundation’s American Expeditionary Forces HQ Band Brass Quintet will provide music. \nView the Schedule for the Day \nSpecially priced items are available at the Doughboy shop for celebration of Armistice Day on November 11th. Visit the shop today. \n\nOUR SPEAKERS\nThe Honorable Dr Kevin Rudd AC is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America\, taking up his posting in Washington in March 2023. \nAmbassador Rudd served as Australia’s twenty-sixth Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010\, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs\, before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. He was Member for Griffith in the Australian Parliament from 1998 to 2013. \nSince leaving government\, Ambassador Rudd has resided in the United States where he is recognised as a leading analyst of China. In 2015\, he became inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. In 2020\, he was appointed President and CEO of the Asia Society globally and\, in 2022\, he founded the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis.In 2019\, Ambassador Rudd was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to Indigenous reconciliation\, innovative economic initiatives\, and major policy reform\, and through senior advisory roles with international organisations. Ambassador Rudd holds honorary positions at the Atlantic Council and Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC; the Asia Society\, Schwartzman Scholars and Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New York; the Paulson Institute in Chicago; the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po in Paris\, France; the Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation in Hamburg\, Germany; and Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra. He is founder and co-chair of an Australian charity\, the National Apology Foundation\, and a trustee of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City. \nAmbassador Rudd started his diplomatic career in 1981 with postings to Beijing and Stockholm. In 1988\, he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Hon Wayne Goss and served him as Premier of Queensland. He was Director-General of the Cabinet Office in Queensland from 1991 to 1995\, and Senior China Consultant for KPMG from 1996 to 1998. \nAmbassador Rudd graduated with Honours in Asian Studies from the Australian National University and received his PhD from Oxford University in 2022. He also studied at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. \nNew Zealand Defence Attaché Commodore Blair Gerritsen. \nWhen he reflects back on a lengthy career\, Commodore Gerritsen laughs. “It was supposed to be a couple of years and it has turned into this amazing experience.”\nThe self-professed ‘country boy’ from Nelson\, moved to Auckland to join the Navy and hasn’t looked back. “It’s been a fantastic ride so I never got off it.”\nDuring his career\, Commodore Gerritsen has commanded ships\, run global operations and worked in defence intelligence. His arrival in DC follows a stint as Defence Adviser in Canberra at the New Zealand High Commission. \nIn this key posting\, Commodore Gerritsen aims to “bring New Zealand’s voice and unique way of seeing things to the international stage”.\n“We’re never going to bring mass to any operation but we bring great people and NZDF’s well-earned reputation.” \nDenise VanBuren serves as the Chair of the Board for the Doughboy Foundation. This follows her tenure as President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution\, where she led a 140-member professional staff at the Washington\, D.C. DAR headquarters\, which includes the 4\,000-seat Constitution Hall\, the DAR Museum\, and the DAR Library. She also oversaw more than $150 million in assets. Previously\, she held positions such as First Vice President General (2016-2019)\, Organizing Secretary General (2013-2016)\, Chair of DAR Magazine (2004-2010)\, and served on the Public Relations (2000-2004) committees. She was the Editor of American Spirit Magazine (2004-2019). Her roles in the New York State DAR include Regent (2010-2013)\, Vice Regent (2007-2010)\, and Historian (2004-2007). At the Melzingah Chapter DAR\, she served as Regent (1998–2001)\, Vice Regent (1995-1998)\, and Librarian (1992-1995). \nDenise is a member of the DAR; Southern Dutchess Exchange Club; Beacon B.P.O.E.; Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Chelsea Yacht Club; Huguenot Society of America; Daughters of American Colonists; and Dutchess County and Beacon historical societies. \nShe earned a Bachelor’s degree in mass communication/journalism from St. Bonaventure University in Olean\, NY\, in 1983\, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh\, NY\, in 1997. \nDenise is married to Christopher G. Barclay and has three sons\, Schuyler\, Troy\, and Brett VanBuren\, and is a grandmother to James. \nOther participants for the Bell of Peace ceremony will include representatives of the Embassies from Australia\, Belgium\, France\, Serbia\, and New Zealand\, as well as the American Gold Star Mothers\, The Military Order of World Wars\, and the Pershing Rifles. Wreaths will be presented\, the National WWI brass bell will be rung 21 times\, and the solemn bugle calls of Aux Morts\, Last Post\, and Taps will be sounded in honor of those who gave their lives during WWI. \nThe ceremony is free and open to the public. \nShow your support. Get your exclusive poppy lapel pin at the Doughboy Shop today! \n\nSchedule of Events\nBUGLE CALL “ATTENTION” \nPRE-CEREMONY MUSIC- AEF Band Brass Quintet\nWELCOME  Clair Sassin\, CEO\, The Doughboy Foundation \n\nANTHEMS OF AUSTRALIA\, NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNITED STATES performed by the AEF Brass Quintet \n\nINVOCATION Rev. Anne Weatherholt\, Episcopal Priest\, Retired \n\nREMARKS Denise VanBuren\, Chair of the Board of Directors\, The Doughboy Foundation \n\nREMARKS Dr. Kevin Rudd\, Australian Ambassador to the United States \n\nMUSICAL SELECTION  The Invercargill March by Alex Lithgow AEF Band Brass Quintet \n\nREMARKS New Zealand Defence Attaché Commodore Blair Gerritsen \n\nPOEM “Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak” Mr. Daniel Dayton \n\nBELL OF PEACE RUNG by Cadet Colonel Cadence Tryggestad\, National Society of Pershing Rifles \n\nPRESENTATION OF WREATHS by Embassies and other organizations \n\nMY COMRADE\, AUX MORTS\, THE LAST POST\, TAPS \nYour support for the Doughboy Foundation will help fund our mission in perpetuity\, inspiring future generations of visitors and forever honoring our World War I veterans and all U.S. servicemen and women. Donate today →
URL:https://staging.doughboy.org/event/bells-of-peace-ceremony-2/
LOCATION:The National WWI Memorial\, 1400 Pennsylvania Ave NW\, WASHINGTON\, DC\, 20004\, United States
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SUMMARY:1914 Christmas Truce
DESCRIPTION:Join the Doughboy Foundation and the French Embassy at the National WWI Memorial\non Friday\, December 12\, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. \nOn Christmas Day in 1914\, just months into what would be one of the bloodiest wars in human history\, carols were heard in trenches across the front lines. Without instruction from their commanders or countries\, men met in the bloody fields of No Man’s Land. Before returning to their trenches and the war\, they traded cards and rations\, kicked a football around\, and joined together in celebration. \nJoin the Doughboy Foundation and the French Embassy as we honor and celebrate that miracle of shared humanity. \nThe concert is\nopen to the public at no charge.\n\nFollowing carols\, we hope you’ll join us for a cocktail reception and a special performance by the Doughboy Foundation’s American Expeditionary Forces HQ Band Brass Quintet. The performance includes holiday and patriotic music. The reception will be held at the Willard Center Club\, located across the street from the National World War I Memorial.\n \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Christmas TRuceThe Chorale de l’Ambassade de France will perform \nDo You Hear What I Hear\nJoy to the World\nLes Anges Dans Nos Campagnes – Gloria in Excelsis Deo\nMarche des Rois – March of the Kings\nDeck the Hall\nNoel Nouvelet – Sing We Now of Christmas \nView Event Details \nINFORMATION AND PURCHASE TICKET FOR RECEPTIONA ticketed reception will be held at 6 pm at the Willard Club\nFor more information and to purchase a ticket\, click on the button above.\nThe reception includes hors d’oeuvres and open bar. \n  \nShow your support. Get your exclusive poppy lapel pin at the Doughboy Shop today! \n\nRemember The Doughboys during the holidays. Get your exclusive Doughboy Ornament at the Doughboy Shop today! \nYour support for the Doughboy Foundation will help fund our mission in perpetuity\, inspiring future generations of visitors and forever honoring our World War I veterans and all U.S. servicemen and women. Donate today →
URL:https://staging.doughboy.org/event/the-christmas-truce/
LOCATION:The National WWI Memorial\, 1400 Pennsylvania Ave NW\, WASHINGTON\, DC\, 20004\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wreaths Across America 2025
DESCRIPTION:National Wreaths Across America Day will be held this year on Saturday\, December 13\, 2025. Join the more than two million volunteers and supporters who will gather to Remember\, Honor\, and Teach at more than 4\,600 participating locations in all 50 states\, at sea\, and abroad. \nThe Doughboy Foundation will hold a ceremony on Saturday\, December 13\, 2025\, at noon\, commemorating WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA. The ceremony will be held at the National WWI Memorial located on Pennsylvania Ave between 14th and 15th Sts NW-one block east of the White House \nRSVP for Wreaths Across AmericaThe ceremony is free and open to the public. \nShow your support. Get your exclusive poppy lapel pin at the Doughboy Shop today! \n\n“Sponsored by NFL Salute to Service” \n Salute to Service is the NFL’s ongoing commitment to honor\, empower\, and connect with U.S. service members\, veterans\, and their families. Since 2011\, it has raised over $75 million through partnerships with leading organizations\, including the Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF)\, Pat Tillman Foundation (PTF)\, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)\, United Service Organizations (USO) and Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP). \nSchedule of Events\nFanfare-Trumpeters \n\nIntroductory remarks by Jari Villanueva\, Executive Director of the Doughboy Foundation \n\nPresentation of the Colors and playing of the National Anthem \n\nInvocation \n\nHistory of Wreaths Across America. \n\nRemarks \n\nPresentation of Wreaths\nUS Army\nUS Marine\nUS Navy\nUS Air Force\nUS Space Force\nUS Coast Guard\nUS Merchant Marine\nMIA/POW \n\nTaps \n\nConclusion \nYour support for the Doughboy Foundation will help fund our mission in perpetuity\, inspiring future generations of visitors and forever honoring our World War I veterans and all U.S. servicemen and women. Donate today →
URL:https://staging.doughboy.org/event/wreaths-across-america/
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