WW1 Centennial News: Episode #35 - China & Japan | 49th UTTC International Powwow | Story of Service | 100C/100M profile | Word=Field Day…

Highlights:

Please donate to the Hurricane Harvey victims |@ 01:00

WW1 in China and Japan |@ 02:30

Mike Shuster - The fire at Salonika |@ 11:35

Dr. “Russ” McDonald on 49th UTTC International Powwow |@ 18:15

Speaking WWI - This week: “Field Day” |@ 24:50

Joel Mize on 100C/100M project in Mussel Shoals, AL |@ 26:00

Chris Connelly - Story of Service about USMC grandfather |@ 34:20

Tanveer Kalo - former intern becoming subject matter expert |@ 40:30

The Buzz - This week in social Media |@ 41:50

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Opening

Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago  - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.

Today is August 30th, 2017 and our guests this week are:

Mike Shuster from the great war project blog,   

Dr. Leander “Russ” McDonald, President of the United Tribes Technical College

Joel Mize from the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Sheffield, Alabama

And Chris Connelly from Dayton Ohio who submitted a “stories of service” post and we want to talk about THAT.

WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show.

Harvey

Before we start the show today, we wanted to take a moment for the people of Texas struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Here is Dan Dayton the Executive Director of the WW1 Centennial Commission

[DAN DAYTON]

There are several links for donating to the relief effort in the podcast notes.

link:https://www.uwtexas.org/hurricane-harvey

https://give.salvationarmyusa.org/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app362b?df_id=27651&mfc_pref=T&27651.donation=form1&NONCE_TOKEN=7D83ADF3DC5B202D97E48EC4DA2D792D

http://www.redcross.org/hp/harvey3

World War One THEN

100 Year Ago This Week

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It really was a world war. In part, what made WWI  so immediately global was the “imperial” mindset of the times. Everyone thought in terms of empires - global and regional conquest, possessions, colonies, holdings, opportunities and international allies and bringing all that baggage into the fray.

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We’ve gone back in time 100 years to explore the war that changed the world!

It is August 1917 and on the 14th of august, China declares war on Germany. So that got us thinking, here at WW1 Centennial News - about an Asia focused segment -  and this is it.

Quick quiz! OK, China declares war on Germany - But is Japan in the war? An what side are they on?

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That’s right - in WW1 Japan is ALSO on the side of the allies.

This week 100 years ago, a Japanese Delegation comes to America headed by Viscount Ishii, the former Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan. This prompts a number of articles in the Official Bulletin - America’s War Gazette created by the order of the President and published daily by George Creel, America’s propaganda chief.

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Dateline: Monday August 27, 1917

Headline: Japanese Mission Pays Homage to George Washington, “He Belongs to All Mankind” Declares Viscount Ishii

As the diplomat placed a wreath on the tomb of America’s first president, he declares:

In the name of my gracious sovereign, the Emperor of Japan, and representing all the liberty-loving people who own his sway, I stand to-day in this sacred presence, not to eulogize the name of Washington, for that were presumption, but to offer the simple tribute of a people’s reverence and lové.

The Day’s events began with a speech by Secretary of the Navy Daniels who recalled the visit to Japan by Admiral Perry a half a century earlier and couches it - NOT as gunboat diplomacy - but as the beginnings of a friendship between the nations.

Later, Secretary and' Mrs. Daniels host the Japanese mission, at  Mount Vernon.

The story goes on to list the guests who attend, including the 20