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FREE World War I Genealogy Research Guide still being offered for limited time!
During our Fleet Week activities in New York City in May, the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission (WWICC) highlighted a new genealogical tool that has a limited-time offer attached. The World War I Genealogy Research Guidehelps trace American military and noncombatant ancestors. It is provided courtesy of WWICC and the Doughboy Foundation. This guide is authored by Debra M. Dudek, with a foreword by Col. Gerald York, grandson of Medal of Honor recipient Alvin York. As well as over 100 pages of information and guidance, it features over 250 links to resources on the Web. The guide is available in PDF form, free of charge. Click here to be among the first 5,000 people who download it FREE. After the download limit has been reached, it can be purchased in book form online or wherever books are sold. Get your copy of the WWI Genealogy Research Guide now!
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National History Day WWI Webinar Series Scholarships deadline June 30
National History Day (NHD) has engaged with several partners to commemorate the World War I Centennial. NHD has created resources to offer different perspectives on the war, engage students with unique primary sources, and remember those who served and sacrificed as part of the war effort. Free tuition and credit is available for two teachers from every NHD Affiliate. Through this program, teachers can earn a certificate of professional development hours or three graduate extension credit units from the University of San Diego. Applications for a scholarship will be accepted through July 30, 2019. Click here to read more about this exciting opportunity for teachers to be part of the Legacies of World War I Webinar series in the fall.
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On Wednesday, June 19, Park University will host a program “From Kansas City to Washington, D.C.: World War I Valor Medals Review,” at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., starting at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the event is free and open to the public, but attendees must RSVP. In mid-April, the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and Park University announced that they were spearheading the effort of a Congress-led systematic review of minority veterans who served in World War I who may have been denied the Medal of Honor due to race. Information on that effort can be found here on the Centennial Commission’s web site. To find out more about the event in Kandsas City, and to RSVP to attend, click here.
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The 2019 Memorial Day festivities were like no other as the Village of Covington in Ohio honored those residents who fought in World War I with a monument. Nearly 300 Covington servicemen fought in World War I with the United States Army’s 148th Infantry Regiment in the battles to liberate Belgium in 1918. On hand to represent Belgium in paying respects for the sacrifices of the Covington servicemen who sacrificed on behalf of freedom was Lieutenant Colonel Heidi Libert of the Belgian Armed Forces. Click here to read more about this memorial, and watch video of the unveiling ceremony.
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The names of 26 Jefferson County, Georgia men who gave their lives in service to their country during WWI were revealed, etched in granite, on a new monument in the newly redesigned veterans plaza on the county courthouse lawn Thursday, June 6. The WWI monument is part of a veterans plaza originally started last year by Dr. Lamar Veatch, a Jefferson County native and member of the WWI Commission who brought the idea of a WWI memorial to the board of commissioners and historical society. Click here to read more about this new Memorial in Georgia to recognize the sacrifices of the World War I veterans.
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From the World War I Centennial News Podcast
100 Years Ago This Week:
The Middle East
Events:
“Votes for Women” Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. with Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay
Episode #126
Teaching & Learning WWI
Host – Theo Mayer
Lafayette, Here We Go Again – Host | @ 02:15
Killing the Angel of Peace
– Mike Shuster | @ 07:15
War Memoirs From WWI: “Siegfried Sassoon”
– Dr. Edward Lengel | @ 11:30
Updates From The States: Hawaii
– Col. Arthur Tulak (ret.) | @ 17:20
Education in 1919
– Host | @ 25:15
WWI Educator’s Tool Kits
– Dr. Jennifer Zoebelein | @ 28:15
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
– Ron Nash | @ 36:25
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“They were mortal, but they were unconquerable.” Willa Cather and the WWI Memorial in Washington
By Mark A. R. Facknitz
What does it mean that Willa Cather ‘s words from her novel, One of Ours, “They were mortal, but they were unconquerable,”will join Woodrow Wilson, Archibald MacLeish, and the American nurse Alta May Andrews on the future WWI Memorial in D.C.’s Pershing Park?
That two of the four whose words will be immortalized in stone are women is remarkable, representing the maturation of our sensibilities as we grasp more completely that the long-term consequences of wars transcend gender. As WWI literary specialist and historical advisor to the WWI Commission, Mark Facknitz, explains in this post, they also exceed the usual limits of class, region, and literary prejudices. Discover Willa Cather’s impact on war and literature by reading “They were mortal, but they were unconquerable.” Willa Cather and the WWI Memorial in Washington at WWrite this week!
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A man is only missing if he is forgotten.
Monday’s MIA this week is Private First Class Arthur Wylie. Born at Forsyth County, Georgia in March, 1899, the only son of James and Ida Wylie, Arthur C. Wylie enlisted in the Georgia National Guard at Atlanta on 23 July, 1917 and was assigned to Company K, 5th Infantry, GNG. Stationed at Camp Wheeler, at Macon, Georgia, the year before this unit had been federalized for duty on the Mexican Border as Company K, 122nd Infantry. Following the declaration of war in 1917, the 122nd had been assigned duty with the 31st ‘Dixie Division’ which would go overseas as a replacement division in September, 1918.
By that time however, then Private First Class Wylie had received machine gun training with the 122nd before sailing for France aboard the troopship Elpenor on 20 June, 1918 as a member of Company #1, Camp Wheeler June Automatic Replacement Draft, which had been drawn from Camp Wheeler trainees. Ten days later he landed in France and a week after that he had been assigned to Company B, 150th Machine Gun Battalion, 42nd ‘Rainbow’ Division. He was with them but a short time when, on 18 July, 1918, he was killed in action, having been in France barely 18 days.
PFC Wylie is memorialized on the Tablets to the Missing at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery at Belleau Wood. Nothing else is known about his case at this time.
Want to help shed some light on PFC Wylies’s case? Consider making a donation toto Doughboy MIA and help us make a full accounting of the 4,423 American service personnel still listed as missing in action from WW1. It takes only a moment and your tax deductible contribution can be as large as you want or as small as $10.00 on our ‘Ten for Them’ program. Make your tax deductible donation now, with our thanks.
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World War I Prints from the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
As the United States commemorates the centennial of World War I, one of the nation’s premier military history institutions pays tribute to the Americans who served and the allies they fought beside to defeat a resourceful enemy with a lavishly illustrated book. It is an official product of the United States World War One Centennial Commission. The story of WWI is told through the memorable art it spawned―including posters from nations involved in the conflict―and a taut narrative account of the war’s signal events, its major personalities and its tragic consequences; and the timely period photographs that illustrate the awful realities of this revolutionary conflict. Most importantly, this book is a tribute to those who served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and what would become the Air Force. Proceeds from the sale of this book help fund the WW1 Memorial in Washington, DC.
This and many other items are available as Official Merchandise of the United States World War One Centennial.
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Submitted by: Ed Golterman {Grandson}
Guy E. Golterman, Sr. was born around 1879. Guy Golterman served in World War 1 with the American wartime industry supplying the armed forces. The enlistment was in 1917 and the service was completed in 1917.
Story of Service
As Director of the Nation’s Forum, Guy Golterman produced the most important series of recordings in US History, led by Pershing’s Address from the Battlefields. Mr. Golterman marshaled the recording and radio industries to the war effort, and to capture all the major statements leading up to the elections of 1920.
Pershing’s was the first recording of a General made on a battlefield in history. The Forum did its job well a century ago and we have the voices today.
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