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“REMEMBER US: The Fight for America’s World War I Memorial” now broadcasting and streaming on PBS
The amazing story of building America's national WWI Memorial a full century after the war. Told exclusively through the words of the project’s visionaries, leaders, artisans and champions who made “the impossible plausible”, is [...]
Daily Taps Sounds at National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. January 25 despite historic snow storm
Despite a historic snow storm that clobbered Washington, D.C. and the Mid-Atlantic Region on January 25, Daily Taps at the National World War I Memorial sounded on schedule at 5:00 p.m. EST. As happens [...]
Not fit to fight in World War I, he invented the television instead
Some may debate which was the greater calamity for the world... Television is 100 years old today. And it was born here, above an Italian cafe in Soho. On 26th January 1926 at [...]
Invisible Sacrifice: Commemorating Those Who Served Without Reaching the Frontline
I will change my narrative. I will develop my research to not only include the Swedish born soldiers, who fought and fell in the Great War, and are buried along the western front, In [...]
“Devotion to Duty: Memorializing Jane Delano” Saturday, Jan. 31, 4 p.m. (via Zoom)
Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein ANC Senior Historian Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein will be leading a public webinar for the Army Nurse Corps Association (ANCA). This free webinar is being hosted by the [...]
The Forgotten Army Soldiers That Fought Alongside the Marines at Belleau Wood
Belleau Wood is where the Marine Corps became the legend we know of today. It's the battle that gave birth to the term "Devil Dogs," the fight that turned a small naval infantry branch [...]
Rewriting the ending: how a North Bay theater director is honoring forgotten WWI heroines
The Ross Valley Players production of The Hello Girls runs from January 30th through March 1st. When Maeve Smith directs musical theater, she does her best to stay true to the book, the score, [...]
‘Hello Girls’ musical tells story of forgotten World War I heroes
It’s not often that a high school actor has the opportunity to become immersed in a character for most of the school year, but Sutton Van Lenten and her fellow cast members of “Hello [...]
North Ferrisburgh, VT’s Laurance Newton Wilson’s WWI Service
The following article was graciously submitted by Sam Pestle. To see more stories of WWI soldiers with accompanying portrait photography, please check out Sam’s page – The United States in WW1 on Facebook. The son of a [...]
