June 1918 Overview: Episode #74

Highlights: June 1918 Overview

June 1918 Overview roundtable - Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey, Theo Mayer | @01:35

Not all quiet on the western front - Mike Shuster | @15:30

National Memorial Day Parade | @19:55

369th Experience Memorial Weekend concerts | @22:05

East Indians in WW1 - Tanveer Kalo | @25:35

Belgian Children’s “Thank You” - Nancy Heingartner | @32:15

100C/100M in Bismarck, ND - Susan Wefald | @39:25

Speaking WW1: Cantonment | @44:50

WW1 War Tech: FlammenWerfer | @46:15

Dispatch Newsletter Highlights | @48:45

The Buzz: Social Media - Katherine Akey | @51:40----more----

Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #74 - 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:

Dr. Edward Lengel, Katherine Akey and I sit down for our June 1918 preview roundtable

Mike Schuster updates us on the fact that it is NOT all quiet on the Western Front

Tanveer Kalo tells us about American immigrants from East Indians and their WWI experience

Nancy Heingartner shares the story of her great-grandfather, the US Consul in Liege, Belgium in WW1

Susan Wefald [wee-fald] tells us about the 100 Cities/100 Memorials project in Bismarck, North Dakota

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

And a whole lot 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.

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

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Preface

The first week of every month, we invite you to our preview roundtable where Dr. Ed lengel, Katherine Akey and I talk about the upcoming month and the key events that happened 100 years ago.  The question on the table as we sat down was, “ what WERE the big stories and themes in June 1918… What follows is our conversation.

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World War One THEN

June 1918 Roundtable

[Ed Lengel, Katherine Akey, Theo Mayer take an overview of June 1918]

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Great War Project

Let’s move on to the great war project with Mike Shuster, former NPR correspondent and curator for the Great War project blog.

Mike - in your post this week you talk about Pershing telling the Allies that the American Forces would not really be ready till the end of the year - maybe not until 1919 - which totally freaks everyone out. The French are quite certain that they cannot last till then, aren’t they Mike?

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Mike Shuster, curator for the Great War Project blog. The link to his post is in the podcast notes

LINK:

http://greatwarproject.org/2018/05/27/americans-not-ready-until-1919/

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World War One NOW

And that’s what was happening 100 Years ago  - It is time to fast forward into the present with WW1 Centennial News NOW -

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This part of the podcast focuses on NOW and how we are commemorating the centennial of WWI

Commission News

Memorial Day Follow Up:

This past weekend we celebrated Memorial Day -- and WWI commemorations were front and center in communities all across the country. The Commission had a pretty busy weekend as well!

First of all we had a float to commemorate the centennial of WWI in the National Memorial Day parade in Washington, DC. Besides being joined by  a number of very cool WW1-era trucks and vehicles, General John J. Pershing himself -- and a bunch of reenactors - We also introduced America’s National WWI Memorial -- asking crowds - “Did you know that every major war of the 20th century has a Memorial in the Nation’s capitol except WWI?” The unbelieving shock at this revelation was pretty universal. Everyone assumes that there is one! But there’s not

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Now New York City always has quite a Memorial Day - Besides their own parade, the Navy coming to town for the much beloved Fleet week - this year the Com