WW1 Centennial News for November 23, 2018 - Episode #99
Enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner in 1918
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Highlights: Thanksgiving Special
Host: Theo Mayer
- What are we thankful for on this Thanksgiving? | @ 00:25
- How to help build the National WWI Memorial in Washington DC | @ 02:45
- Memorial Sculptor Sabin Howard on the sculpture design | @ 06:55
- President Wilson’s 1918 Thanksgiving Proclamation | @ 10:50
- Commission Executive Director Dan Dayton | @ 15:55
- Commission Chairman Terry Hamby | @ 17:25
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PODCAST NOTES: Guest links and our research
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Memorial information
Thanksgiving Letters
http://herolettersww1.blogspot.com/2009/11/365th-infantry-african-american-wwi_08.html?m=1
https://gazette665.com/2017/11/17/thanksgiving-1918-a-world-war-i-soldier-dreams-of-home/
MENU from AEF 2nd Aviation Instruction Center
http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-day-1918.html
DIARY ENTRY
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-f2a2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
GREAT PHOTOS
https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/military-thanksgiving-home-front-front-lines-slideshow/slide-3
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200316/BibliographicResource_3000092752195.html
FIRST INFLIGHT TGIVING MEAL
Thanksgiving essay and poem in the NY Times, 11/28/1918
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/11/28/97047132.html?pageNumber=16
Story about Thanksgiving dinners for troops in NYC, 1918
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/11/28/issue.html
“Nice’s homes open to our men”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/11/27/96866884.pdf
Sponsors:
The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The Starr Foundation
Production:
Producer & Host: Theo Mayer
Line Producer: Katherine Akey
Research: JL Michaud
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