A lotta shelling going on: Episode #73

Highlights

100 years ago this week: Drafting the young and the “idlers” | @01:15

War in the Sky: From Signal Corps to US Army Air Service | @07:40

Cantigny: AEF on the offensive - Mike Shuster & Dr. Edward Lengel | @11:15

Great War Channel: The Fightin-est Marine - Indy Neidell | @17:15

369th Experience in NYC memorial weekend | @18:25

The Moralist: New Woodrow Wilson Book - Prof. Patricia O’Toole | @21:15

Update from the States: Artillery, dissenters and shells - Michael Hitt | @27:15

Remembering Vets: PTSD and Trauma - Dr. Jason Crouthamel | @32:45

Speaking WWI: Some onomatopoeia -Whizzband, Crump and Dud | @39:35

WW1 War Tech: The bicycle in WW1 | @41:15

Weekly Dispatch: Article highlights from the newsletter | @44:25

The Buzz: Commemoration in Social Media - Katherine Akey | @46:25----more----

Opening

Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #73 - 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.

This week:

Mike Schuster and Dr Edward Lengel fill us in on the action at Cantigny

Patricia O’Toole tells us about her book The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

Michael Hitt updates us on the great state of Georgia in the war

Dr. Jason Crouthamel shares his expertise on PTSD, Trauma and WW1

Katherine Akey with the commemoration of world war one in social media

All 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.

I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.

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Preface

Although we know that the fighting in WWI is going to end this coming November - 100 years ago this week, the world did not!

The United States continues on it’s war effort, changing industry, society and nearly every aspect of life in the country.

This includes continuing to draft young men into the military service. With that in mind, let’s jump into our Centennial Time Machine and go back 100 years to see what’s leading in the news this week 100 years ago in the War that Changed the World!

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World War One THEN

100 Year Ago This Week

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From the pages of the Official Bulletin - the government’s war gazette - published by George Creel and the Committee on Public information - our government propaganda ministry, this week the headlines are full renewed vigor for pushing the war effort forward!

I want to stop and give you a note we have not mentioned for many weeks: The US WWI Centennial Commission is republishing this amazing primary source of information on what the US Government was thinking, saying and promoting 100 years ago. We re-publish a  new issue, every day on the centennial of its original publication date… So if you want to read the governments daily newspaper (except Sunday of course), go to ww1cc.org/bulletin and you can follow the war effort in a wholly unique and very interesting way.

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DATELINE: Tuesday, May 21, 1918

Today the headline of the Official Bulletin reads:

President, in opening Red Cross campaign, calls German peace approaches insincere; no limit on size of Army going to France!

In the story President Woodrow Wilson says: Quote:

There are two duties with which we are face to face.

The first duty is to win the war, and the second duty,

that goes hand in hand with it, is to win it greatly and worthily,

showing the real quality of not only our power,

but the real quality of our purpose and of ourselves.

Of course, the first duty, the duty that we must keep in the foreground of all of our thoughts until it is accomplished, is to win the war.

I have heard gentleman recently say that we must get 5 million men ready. I ask, why limited to 5 million?

He continues with:

We are not diverted from the grim purpose of winning the war by any insincere approaches upon the