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Der ESC ist ein unpolitischer Wettbewerb – so steht es im Reglement. Aber häufig hat er doch eine politische Dimension. «United by Music»: So lautet das Motto des Eurovision Song Contest. Geschaffen wurde er in den 50er-Jahren, um die kriegsversehrten europäischen Völker einander wieder näherzubringen. Und gemäss den Regeln ist er eine «unpolitische Veranstaltung». Demnach sind Liedtexte, Ansprachen und Gesten politischer Natur während des Contests untersagt. Soweit die Theorie, denn in der Realität hatte der grösste Musikwettbewerb der Welt oft eine politische Dimension. Politische Vorstösse Dass der Song Contest dieses Jahr in der Schweiz stattfindet, hat auch zu politischen Vorstössen geführt: So ergriff die EDU in Basel das Referendum gegen den Millionenkredit des Kantons für den ESC. Zwei Drittel der Stimmenden sagten an der Urne aber Ja zum Kredit. Gäste im «Forum» Darf oder soll der Eurovision Song Contest politisch sein? Darüber diskutieren am Donnerstag, 15. Mai, von 10 bis 11 Uhr im «Forum»: • Samuel Kullmann, Berner Grossrat der Eidgenössisch-Demokratischen Union, EDU. Kullmann wirkte am Referendum gegen den ESC-Kredit mit. Er lehnte die staatliche Unterstützung des Anlasses ab. • Eric Facon, Kulturjournalist. Facon beobachtet ein zunehmend aufgeheiztes Klima rund um den Song Contest. Es sei erwartbar, dass dies zu politischen Kundgebungen führe, denn der ESC finde nicht in einem Vakuum statt.
2010 schied Michael von der Heide beim Eurovision Song Contest im Halbfinale aus. Doch bis heute ist er Fan des Grossevents. Auch Comedienne Reena Krishnaraja liebt den ESC. Anlässlich der 69. Ausgabe in Basel blicken sie auf die Highlights und sprechen darüber, welche Kraft in der Popmusik steckt. Seit Nemo 2024 mit «The Code» den Sieg für die Schweiz holte, ist die Welt hierzulande wieder in Ordnung. Dieses Jahr richtet die Schweiz also den grössten Gesangswettbewerb der Welt aus, und alle Augen richten sich in dieser Woche nach Basel. Auch der «Kulturplatz» schaut auf die vergangenen 69 Jahre Eurovision Song Contest. Denn wer hat's erfunden? Ein Schweizer. 1955 hatte der Westschweizer Marcel Bezençon, damals Generaldirektor der Schweizerischen Rundfunkgesellschaft, die Idee zu einem Schlagerwettbewerb, und in der ersten Ausgabe 1956 holte prompt Lys Assia mit ihrem Song «Refrain» den Sieg. Niederlagen für die Schweiz Doch so euphorisch sollte es die nächsten Jahrzehnte nicht weiter gehen für die Schweiz. Es ist vielmehr eine hoch-emotionale Geschichte mit ein paar Aufs und sehr vielen Abs. Legendär der Gewinn der Kanadierin Celine Dion, die für die Schweiz antrat und für heisse Diskussionen im Bundesrat sorgte. Und hochdramatisch auch der komplett misslungene Auftritt vom damals schon arrivierten DJ Bobo. Bis die Schweiz mit Nemo wieder richtig jubeln konnte, ist einiges passiert. Und dennoch hat man sich nie entmutigen lassen, mit dem ESC 2025 zeigt die Schweiz, dass sie ESC kann und das ganze Land mitfiebert. Vereint durch die Musik United in Music – So lautet das Motto des diesjährigen Eurovision Song Contest. Schaut man auf die Show heute, stellt man fest, dass die Künstler immer diverser werden. Vom braven Schlagerwettbewerb ist da nicht mehr viel zu spüren. Und obwohl der ESC nicht politisch sein will, ist er es. Denn Musik verbindet. Und doch, mit Popmusik Länder-, Geschlechter- und kulturelle Gräben zu überwinden, ist ein hehres Ziel. Ob es in Zeiten von Ukrainekrieg- und Nahostkonflikt, von Trump und Putin noch realistisch ist, ist fraglich. «Kulturplatz» schaut mit Musikjournalist und Poptheoretiker Jens Balzer, der sich seit langem mit der gesellschaftlichen Sprengkraft von Popmusik beschäftigt, auf die Kraft, die in der Popmusik lag und liegt. Und auch Eva Wannenmacher spricht mit ihren Gästen Michael von der Heide und Reena Krishnaraja über den Eurovision Song Contest, warum er fasziniert, und wie er sich verändert hat. Und welches der berühmteste Song ist, den der ESC jemals hervorbrachte. Und am Schluss singen und tanzen sie alle zu «Waterloo».
TOP 3: Thursday Snow Closures, New Survey Reveals the Shocking Percentage of People Seen Leaving Public Restrooms Without Washing Their Hands, and Duchess Meghan Recuits Billie Eilish to Surprise Victim of LA Fires full 281 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:59:02 +0000 wY46Fj6yK49KmuaSmvhWjfUNx2jAuRRC music,society & culture,news Kramer & Jess On Demand Podcast music,society & culture,news TOP 3: Thursday Snow Closures, New Survey Reveals the Shocking Percentage of People Seen Leaving Public Restrooms Without Washing Their Hands, and Duchess Meghan Recuits Billie Eilish to Surprise Victim of LA Fires Highlights from the Kramer & Jess Show. 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Music So
The new STARS of Hadestown come to Take A Bow chatting all things HADESTOWN! This episode features the different perspectives of performers in different stage of their career with different relationships with the show. Hear all about how the show began with Ani, to Lola making her debut in this GIANT show fresh off of a hit tv show, to Jordan Fisher cherishing the moment in his life he gets to tell this story. Ani Di Franco How HADESTOWN was made Hadestown as a concept album Why she decided to make her Broadway debut Finding the balance of Persephone Lola Tung The Summer I Turned Pretty On set vs on Broadway Surprising people by showcasing her singing talents Learning from Jordan Fisher and previous Eurydice such as Solea Pfeiffer and Eva Noblezada Jordan Fisher Becoming a Broadway Veteran What he has learned from playing Orpheus How he approaches a role THE GASP How he relates to all of the characters he's played on Broadway Fan-girling over the MUSIC + So much more from each of them! Curtain up on Jordan Fisher, Lola Tung, and Ani DiFranco! Connect with Jordan Fisher on Instagram: @jordanfisher Connect with Lola Tung on Instagram: @lola.tung Connect with Ani DiFranco on Instagram: @anidifranco Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Chemistry is building and the boys are feeling good this Sunday, its Christmas Week and we couldn't be more excited! DD2 14 Gaming podcast is for mature audiences only. Any videos, music, or entertainment not originating from DD2 14 Gaming is used and covered under Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976, also known as 'fair use'. Opinions expressed are our own and do not represent any DoD or U.S. government entities as a whole. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Viewer and listener discretion is advised. You are no longer alone now, because we have you. Music So this is Krampus by James C Burns --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dd214gaming/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dd214gaming/support
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There is no building in Sydney that has polarised opinions more than the Sirius apartments on Circular Quay – unless you include the Opera House, its architectural antithesis across the bay. After years of controversy, plans have been revealed and expressions of interest sought in what will be a revolutionary revamp of the former housing commission apartment block. You can read more about it the multi-million-dollar project here - and see a slideshow of the proposed revanp - but, naturally we also have our two cents worth here in the pod. LISTEN HERE After that, we talk about the developer who was the first to fall foul of the Sunset Clawbacks law – which we personally helped bring into being – and who has now gone bust (pause to be mentally carried shoulder-high around the room). You can read more about that HERE. And we follow up some fairly heated discussions on the Forum about feeding stray cats with news from the Guardian Online about how Chicago is putting 1,000 feral felines to work. Also from Chicago, there's this amazing video about how a cat has survived a leap from the fifth floor of a burning building. As we say on the pod, don't mess with Chicago cats … TRANSCRIPT IN FULL Jimmy 0:00 Okay, we have a lot to get through today. We've got the sale of the Sirius; we've got a developer who has gone out of business. We've got cats! Sue 0:12 Great! Jimmy 0:14 So, we'd better get on with it. I'm Jimmy Thomson, I write the Flat Chat column for the Australian Financial Review. Sue 0:19 And I'm Sue Williams and I write about property for Domain. Jimmy 0:22 And this is the Flat Chat Wrap. [MUSIC] So, there seems to be a bit of a stoush about the Sirius building. Sue 0:45 The Sirius building, I think, has been in the news for a long, long time. I mean, they've been lots and lots of fights over it in the past, over the heritage listing of the building. Lots of people love the building, because I think it's a fantastic example, of 70s brutalist architecture. Jimmy 1:00 So, for anybody who's not familiar with it (and we'll probably put a picture on the website), but if you're not familiar with it, it's the one as you're coming over the Harbour Bridge towards the city from North Sydney, it's on the left, and it looks like a stack of Lego blocks. Sue 1:21 I guess it does! It's on Cumberland Street and it just can't be missed, really. As I said, some people think it's a great icon of brutalist architecture, which is increasingly rare these days. Jimmy 1:32 Well, for the good reason that they keep knocking it down because it's ugly. Sue 1:35 Well, other people will think that the building is a really ugly eyesore. A lot of people thought the building should be demolished. Other people felt that the building should be retained, because it was built for public housing. About 200 people originally and they felt that they should be allowed to stay there. Jimmy 1:53 With the best views of the Opera House you'll ever see. Sue 1:57 Yes and other people felt that, well, they just didn't deserve it really, I suppose and that rich people are the ones who could afford to live in such a fabulous harborside location and should be allowed to do so. Jimmy 2:11 Is it as polarizing and divisive? Is it a case of maybe saying this was terrific that for 40 years, Housing Commission tenants could live there with these fabulous views, but Sydney has moved on. The money from the sale of that building (which is allegedly going to be put into public housing), can be put to much better use and house more people. Sue 2:37 But where is that public housing? It's probably way out in the suburbs and personally, I think it's wrong to keep cities just for rich people. Cities should have a really vibrant, demographic; a huge diversity. That's what makes it culturally rich and if it just ends up (the inne...
Every year around this time, the buzz would be the countdown to Trinidad & Tobago Carnival!! A global pandemic has taken away our limes, our fetes, and the ability to put on the greatest show on earth; but we island people are resilient and nurtured by the warm and spicy food of love: MUSIC So, in that spirit we continue to bring the vibes you have grown to expect at this time of year. This new mix spiritually fills the physical void created by the cancelling of Carnivals, but no one says we can’t buss’ a lil socially distanced wine in our homes. We celebrate the artistes who provide us with Soca music that will ignite our souls and mobilise our waistlines - join us on this Soca journey and let us remember the spirit of jump & wave. This is Soca Mixology, download and press play. Respect DJ Markee and Selector Junior
There are two major strands to this week’s podcast. The first stems from a question raised in the Flat Chat Forum, about an apartment owner who wants to install a stairlift – one of those seats that trundles up a staircase – in a narrow common property stairwell. It's for his elderly mother, so you have some sympathy, as you'd have for the other owners who had to squeeze past the rail every day. Listen Here Now the plusses and (many) minuses of this proposal are thrashed out in the Forum but here in the podcast, we have come up with a cunning plan. Depending on the structure of the block, owners might be able to install a small passenger lift on the outside of the building for between $100k and $150k. Ouch, I hear you say. $150k? But get this, the value of EACH apartment that benefitted from the lift might easily go up by about the same amount. So say you had six apartments (excluding the ground floor units) who each contributed $25k – about the cost of a bathroom renovation – you could raise the value of every upstairs flat by about four times that or more ... and make your lives a lot easier. Of course it would depend on the layout of the block – the stairwell would need to have one external wall – and by-laws and what not. But the point is, it’s do-able and the owner in the Forum story would be able to get him Mum up and down the stairs without any trouble at all. The other major part of the podcast is a chat with Karen Stiles, the Executive Officer of the Owners Corporation network. She is working with NSW Minister Victor Dominello to create a register of every strata scheme in NSW, including their major points of contact, whether it be the secretary, chair or strata manager. It's one of those ideas that's both radical and logical - probably the two main reasons why it hasn't been done before. There’s all that and more in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap. The transcript, in full Jimmy 00:00 This is a momentous occasion. Sue 00:02 Really? Jimmy 00:03 Believe it or not. This is the 100th podcast. Sue: 00.07 Wow. Jimmy 00:08 We have done 100 of these things. Sue 00:10 That's incredible. Congratulations, Jimmy. Jimmy 00:13 It means we've been doing it for almost two years. Sue 00:15 Wow. It's gone quickly, hasn't it? Jimmy 00:18 It has, and, and the numbers of people listening are slowly growing. Sue 00:23 Fantastic. Thank you very much listeners. Jimmy 00:25 Yes, thank you and to help us celebrate her 100th, pass it on to your friends. Get more people listening; that would be very cool. If you enjoy it, your friends will probably enjoy it too. This week, we have an intriguing story about somebody who wants to install a stair lift, where we suspect no stair lift should be installed. And we'll be talking to Karen Stiles, the executive officer of the Owners Corporation Network. I'm Jimmy Thomson. Sue 00:56 And I'm Sue Williams. Jimmy 00:57 And this is the 100th Flat Chat Wrap. [MUSIC] So here's the scenario that was posed on the forum. Older building, narrow stairs; an apartment on the third floor. The owner, he’s put up a bylaw to give him permission to install a chairlift; a stair lift. They call it stair lift, not a chairlift. That's what you use in ski resorts. It's not quite as elaborate as that. Sue 01:37 So that's up the fire escape, up the fire stairs? Jimmy 01:39 No, no, no, no, it's in the commonly used general staircase thing. I don't think there are fire stairs. Sue 01:47 Oh, okay. Well, there wouldn't be I suppose, would there. There’s just one, one staircase. There’s only fire stairs if you've got a lift. Jimmy 01:53 So he's got a situation where there's 16 apartments, or 18, 12 in one block, and six in his block, but it's all the same strata plan. And he's worried that the 12 people in the other block won't really care about what's happening in his part...
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In episodic television (Seinfeld, Friends, etc.), a bottle episode is one in which the writers mostly take leave of the regular format, opting for a cheaply produced, one-set show that often features secondary characters. Infinity times Zero I tried to do that with this episode, not so much because I needed a break from the regular show themes, as because I had absolutely no clue going in what I was going to talk about. But as is usual with free improvisations, themes have a way of establishing themselves by a) sheer force of my monomaniacal personality; b) the fact that I talk about the same basic three things over and over; c) the fact that just because the universe is random, doesn't mean everything isn't connected, and therefore as soon as you begin talking, all sorts of connections start forming automatically in your mind; D) all of the above. Memory + Forgetting = The Future And so it is that I delve into the role that memory plays in improvisation, how it creates a dialogue—sometimes an argument—between the past and present, the result of which is the future. Memory, of course, is imperfect: we remember bits of tunes, conversations, events, but we remember them imperfectly. I find that the imperfection of remembering is itself a creative tool: I will be improvising, and a bit of some tune I played years ago comes up, but I only remember the first part. So what do I do? I'm forced to take the idea in another direction. Or stop. But going in another direction, in some ways, is the definition of creativity. So why stop? Eventually, of course, you do have to stop. Mentioned: Bloom School of Jazz David is a wonderful, iconoclastic teacher, not just of jazz, but the meaning of music itself. Follow: Podcast Homepage Episode Transcript Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Bandcamp Page Patreon Page Twitter Peter Saltzman Website Facebook Contact: info@petersaltzman.com Epissode 17 TranscriptionEpisode [MUSIC] In episodic television shows like Friends Seinfeld, the first iteration of Star Trek, there is a thing called the bottle episode. A bottle episode is a kind of cheaply produced, usually on one set, more often than not with secondary. Tertiary characters being featured, tends to leave behind the main structure format of the regular show that you're used to. It's this independent little entity of a show. So that's what I'm going to do today. Of course, this is not a television show. It's not truly episodic either for that matter. Even though each podcast has a kind of episodic tendency, there are themes that build up over time, but this episode is going to be a independent little thing in itself. And the reason for that is because I had no idea coming in what I was going to do and it's cheaply produced. Well, it's produced exactly like all the others now they think about it. I put a microphone in front of the piano. I have two microphones inside the piano and I talk and play. So in that sense, it's exactly like every other episode. [MUSIC] Bottle episode or you could call it the whatever episode, whatever is on my mind that may seem irrelevant to everything else. Well, that’s impossible. [MUSIC] Angular Blues or asymmetrical blues. [MUSIC] After all. The premise of this show is free improvisation. It’s called improvisations on the ledge, which seems to imply the possibility of falling off, which I can edit out or leave in. As I’ve said in other episodes, mistakes often lead you down paths you weren’t expecting, which in itself makes free improvisation a worthwhile endeavor. Now that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a worthwhile endeavor for the listener. It this, well, it’s worth it for me because I get to experiment with new ideas. It doesn’t mean you would want to hear it. [MUSIC] Well, that’s the way with all free improvisation, not just in music, free improvisation in comedy or whatever it is. In that case also used as a tool to explore one’s technique, to go further with it, to get you out of perhaps patterns, and I’ve talked about this before in my avant garde episodes, that’s episodes 15 and 13 and I talked about the avant garde as being a useful technique for those who are otherwise mainstream in their approach, as a useful technique to break out of certain patterns. And free improvisation, whether it’s avant-garde or not,is the same way. And I suppose in television then a bottle episode is a chance for the writers to just go, what the hell! So this is the whatever, what the hell bottle episode where anything can happen but mostly won’t. And the Nice thing is I can edit it all out. I can edit it all out. I can edit… [MUSIC] Since we’re on the topic of doing whatever the problem is. When you’re this old 58 and you’ve had a life in music and a life in general, everything you do, everything you say, everything you play, every move you make. See, this is what I’m talking about. Every move: I start saying that and I think of Sting’s Every Breath You Take because I just said every, every, every. So every thing I play has some association with something else, whether it’s by me or somebody else. And sometimes I get the two confused, I’ll start playing something and I’d go, oh, did I write that? No, that was by Sting. You begin to play on your own memory. Your memory starts intermingling with the present and then the problem becomes do you go with the memory or do you deny it or do you do something somewhere in between those worlds? [MUSIC] So for instance, right there, I was thinking as soon as I played it of a tune and I knew exactly what it was, it was by an old mentor of mine, David Bloom, who has for many years had the Bloom school of jazz here in Chicago. And David wrote this tune that he would play for me in his smokey old school on Rush Street in Chicago. And I believe it was called Shadow of a Soul. The tune, I mean not the school, though God knows that the school had kind of a shadowy vibe to it and it went something like that. But I don’t remember it perfectly cause this was when I was 17 years old, so 41 years ago. And so I started playing it. And inevitably I’m aware of this past, these moments where I see David up there with a cigarette in his mouth, on his Acrosonic piano with cigarette burns probably on the keys because he’d leave the cigarette dangling over the edge. And I have this memory of him playing that. He was not a very proficient pianist. He’s a guitarist and flutist, and I don’t remember where, what chords it was, but I know the tune basically. [MUSIC] So when I’m doing something like that, I’m in the mode of interacting with the past, the present, and trying to create something for the future. This is really what all music is. When you’re playing, you think you’re in the moment, but you’re also in the past, you’re drawing on the past to create the future. [MUSIC] So what I normally do in free improvisation, because there are all of these free associations going on, is I get into kind of a dialogue with my past, other people’s pasts, other music. But I, I try not to do a literal representation of what I remember, partly because I don’t remember it perfectly. And so I try to build on that and create something new out of it. So … [MUSIC] That’s somewhat the beginning of that. David Blum tuned, but I don’t remember where it’s gonna go. So I just do something else with it. [MUSIC] David would never do that. Maybe he would. [MUSIC] He would definitely never do that.
This week we are continuing our series on the women of Belmont University. Belmont is a private liberal arts university in Nashville, Tennessee. Belmont is home to the only International accredited Music Business program in the world My guest today is Dr. Cheryl S. Carr, associate dean and associate professor at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business. Dr. Carr, a former entertainment and intellectual property attorney, has written the book Music Business Careers. She and I talk about music on Music Row(Nashville), Belmont and the question that everyone in music should answer, What will you do with Music? So, if you or someone in your life wants to go into the music industry, this show is a must listen. She has some awesome questions you need to ask yourself about going into this career. She also answers my fun questions about her favorite Nashville restaurant and what books she is reading. Grab a copy of her book https://amzn.to/2GHSKW7 Her favorites: Becoming by Michelle Obama Feeling Good by Dr. David Burn Dare to Lead ★ KEEP UP WITH ME ★ ☯Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/corinesandifer/ ☯Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RisingStoriesPodcast/ ☯LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinesandifer/ ☯Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/corinesandifer/ ☯Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrDjwGD14LnjUOJ_Hpyi_tw >>>>>Join our Community of Empowering Women
Ignite Your Purpose Daily Show 123 #IYP We talk longevity through a healthy lifestyle ~ a mix of mental physical and spiritual knowledge ~ The mind Body soul trifecta ~ Neagative To Positive ~ Better Everyday Olympics considering Esports for the games?! If you have not heard of Twitch or any of the other online platforms which are blowing up the internet as far as views and followers..well then maybe you are a little un informed currently. So we will bring a few thing into light and perspective. If you have ever studied the markets or trends video games are massive and it's a massive industry, new game release sell tons of units! You match that with the #Youtuber craze of people watching people play video games...that's where Twitch came about I feel....and know you have a massive community that play video games, watch, comment, tip, and so on. So is it any different from way back when...Elvis Presley came out swinging his hips...it was a new thing a start to Rock and roll. And the generation before him was not use to it...and called it the Devil"s Music So basically we chat about either we change with the times or we get left behind and complain about how it use to be back in the good old day's!!
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2017 Favorite Stories - Part 2 Welcome to Part 2 of our 2017 favorite stories in review! June 28, Episode 26 - From 100 Years ago this week : The Red Cross we know today | @ 01:05 July 5, Episode 27 - From Events - “Ready to Serve” - a one woman show about WWI Nurses - with Ellouise Schoettler | @ 07:50 July 12, Episode 28 - From Commission News - farewell to Former Commissioner James Nutter with Dan Dayton | @ 12:55 July 19, episode 29 - 100 Years ago this week - A tale of combat between a merchant ship and a U-boat | @ 14:05 July 26 Episode 30 - From the Buzz - The Kodak Vest Pocket Camera with Katherine Akey | @ 17:20 August 30, Episode 35 - From Speaking WWI - Field Day | @ 19:35 Sept. 27, Episode 39 - from Speaking WWI - OMG.. Really! | @ 20:55 October 4, episode 40 - From the Great War Project - Ring of Spies in Palestine with Mike Shuster | @ 22:10 October 18, Episode 42 - From 100 Cities / 100 Memorials the genesis and future of the program with Ken Clarke | @ 26:00 November 1, episode 44 - From 100 Years ago this week - Living in NYC? Did a Slacker live in your apartment building 100 years Ago? | @ 31:25 October 25, Episode 43 - From Commission News - America’s WWI Memorial in Washington DC - with Edwin Fountain | @ 33:50 November 8 - Episode 45 - From the Great War Project - The Eastern Front Collapses - with Mike Shuster | @ 39:05 November 15, Episode 46 - From 100 Years ago This week - The Suffragists in WWI | @ 43:00 December 6, Episode 49 - From the WWrite Blog - German songwriter/soldier found from rediscovering his music | @ 51:25----more---- Intro Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - Episode #53. This week, the podcast turns one year old. We are so pleased and thankful for the hundreds of thousands of downloads we have received from you, our listeners! For this first anniversary we are going to share PART 2 of our favorite stories and segments from 2017 with you! Like last week, they are presented them in chronological order. This week we are going from mid-summer through to year’s end. We are not going to spend time setting up each piece, but we will tell you the date, the episode and the article title each time - to keep it all in context. WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the US World War One centennial Commission and the commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Welcome to Part 2 of our 2017 favorite stories in review! [music] June 28, Episode 26 From 100 Years ago this week : The Red Cross we know today link:www.ww1cc.org/bulletin http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2700-ww1-centennial-news-episode-26-6-28-2017.html July 5, Episode 27 From Events - “Ready to Serve” - a one woman show about WWI Nurses - with Ellouise Schoettler link:http://ellouiseschoettler.com/ http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2747-ww1-centennial-news-episode-27-7-05-2017.html July 12, Episode 28 From Commission News - farewell to Former Commissioner James Nutter with Dan Dayton link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2770-ww1-centennial-news-episode-28-7-12-2017.html July 19, episode 29 100 Years ago this week - A tale of combat between a merchant ship and a U-boat link:www.ww1cc.org/bulletin http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2903-ww1-centennial-news-episode-29-7-19-2017.html July 26 Episode 30 From the Buzz - The Kodak Vest Pocket Camera with Katherine Akey link:http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/technique/interviews/vest-pocket-kodak-book-107481 http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/2951-ww1-centennial-news-episode-30-7-26-2017.html August 30, Episode 35 From Speaking WWI - Field Day link:http://www.theidioms.com/field-day/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/field_day http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3057-ww1-centennial-news-episode-35-8-30-2017.html Sept. 27, Episode 39 from Speaking WWI - OMG.. Really! link:https://www.wsj.com/article_email/omg-it-started-in-1917-with-a-letter-to-churchill-1504882081-lMyQjAxMTA3OTE4MDAxNzA3Wj/ http://today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/165172940448/first-use-of-omg http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3182-ww1-centennial-news-episode-39-9-27-2017.html October 4, episode #40 From the Great War Project - Ring of Spies in Palestine with Mike Shuster link:http://greatwarproject.org/2017/10/01/ring-of-spies-in-palestine/ http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3206-ww1-centennial-news-episode-40-10-04-2017.html October 18, Episode 42 From 100 Cities / 100 Memorials the genesis and future of the program with Ken Clarke Link: www.ww1cc.org/100cities http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3265-ww1-centennial-news-episode-42-10-18-2017.html October 25, Episode 43 From Commission News - America’s WWI Memorial in Washington DC - with Edwin Fountain Link: www.ww1cc.org/memorial http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3363-ww1-centennial-news-episode-43-10-25-2017.html November 1 , episode 44 From 100 Years ago this week - Living in NYC? Did a Slacker live in your apartment building 100 years Ago? link:http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0CE3DD113AE433A2575AC2A9669D946696D6CF http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3520-ww1-centennial-news-episode-44-11-01-2017.html November 8 - Episode 45 From the Great War Project - The Eastern Front Collapses - with Mike Shuster link:http://greatwarproject.org/2017/11/05/the-bolsheviks-seize-power-in-russia/ http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3616-ww1-centennial-news-episode-45-11-08-2017.html November 15, Episode 46 From 100 Years ago This week - The Suffragists in WWI Link: www.ww1cc.org/bulletin http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3699-ww1-centennial-news-episode-46-11-15-2017.html November 22, Episode 47 From the Groundbreaking of America’s WWI Memorial in Washington DC - General Mark A, Milley, 39th Chief of Staff of the US Army - Link: www.ww1cc.org/memorial http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3719-ww1-centennial-news-episode-47-11-22-2017.html December 6, Episode 49 From the WWrite Blog - German songwriter/soldier found from rediscovering his music @ | 39:05 link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/articles-posts/3783-soon-all-too-soon.html http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/2015-12-28-18-26-00/weekly-sync-call/3835-ww1-centennial-news-episode-49-12-06-2017.html Outro Thank you for having joined us for part 2 of our WW1 Centennial News favorites segments of 2017. This is the beginning of a crucial year - as we move from the decision to enter the war, and the near manic ramp up to do so, to the true sacrifice and loss of our nation’s precious sons - as we enter the fight - and as that fighting ceases in November. WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the US World War 1 Centennial Commission, and our founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Special thanks to the show’s line producer Katherine Akey, researcher Eric Marr, plus our many wonderful guests, contributors and a rolling team of interns. I’m you host, Theo Mayer. Thank you for listening. The US World War One Centennial Commission was created by Congress to honor, commemorate and educate about WW1. Our programs are to-- inspire a national conversation and awareness about WW1 We are bringing the lessons of the 100 years ago into today's classrooms; We are helping to restore WW1 memorials in communities of all sizes across our country; and of course we are building America’s National WW1 Memorial in Washington DC. Thank you to the commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library for their support. This podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn on iTunes and google play ww1 Centennial News, and on Amazon Echo or other Alexa enabled devices. Just say: Alexa: Play W W One Centennial News Podcast. Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. [MUSIC] So long!
Favorite Stories of 2017 - Part 1 January 4, Episode #1- our first story! | @ 01:05 February 15, Episode #7 - "Stories of Service" and "Family Ties" introduced by Chris Christopher | @ 02:15 March 8, Episode #10 War in the sky -The story of Baron von Zeppelin | @ 04:05 March 29, Episode #13- Special Feature - about horses and mules serving | @ 07:50 April 5 and April #12 - Episodes 14 and 15 - Commission News - In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace - with Ed Bilous and Chris Christopher | @ 11:20 April 26 Episode #17 - 100 years ago this week - The selective service act of 1917 | @ 19:10 April 26 - Episode #17 - War In the Sky - It turned into the world’s largest aerospace company | @ 21:05 May 3, Episode #18 - Spotlight in the media - introducing Sgt. Stubby the animated film with Jordan Beck | @ 23:30 May 3 Episode #18 From the BUZZ - Moss is mostly good with Katherine Akey | @ 28:05 May 10, Episode #19 - 100 Years ago This week - For Mother’s day - Mothers in WW1 | @ 29:20 June 6, Episode #23 - Commission News - A brief mission profile from Commission Executive Director - Dan Dayton | @ 35:25 Also June 6, Episode #23 - Special Feature - George Cohan’s “Over There” turns 100 - with Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten | @ 36:50 June 14, 2017, Episode 24 - Spotlight in the media - Three theories on why Wonder Woman is set in WW1 |@ 43:20 June 14, Episode 24 - International Report - The Violin of Private Howard | @ 45:40----more---- Overview Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - Episode #52. This New Year’s week, and next week, we have a special 2-episode series for you. Next week marks our first anniversary for the show so wanted to share some of our favorite stories and segments from 2017 with you! They are presented in chronological order. Part 1 takes us into July 2017, and Part 2 through the end of the year. We are not going to spend time setting up each piece, but we will tell you the date, the episode and the article title each time - to keep it all in context. WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the US World War One centennial Commission and the commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. See above for the list of stories Outro Thank you for having joined us for our WW1 Centennial News New Year’s Special - The best of 2017 - Part 1. Join us next week for Part 2. Happy New year to all of you for 2018 and for 1918 from the whole team at WW1 Centennial News The US World War One Centennial Commission was created by Congress to honor, commemorate and educate about WW1. Our programs are to-- inspire a national conversation and awareness about WW1 We are bringing the lessons of the 100 years ago into today's classrooms; We are helping to restore WW1 memorials in communities of all sizes across our country; and of course we are building America’s National WW1 Memorial in Washington DC. Thank you to the commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library for their support. This podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn on iTunes and google play ww1 Centennial News, and on Amazon Echo or other Alexa enabled devices. Just say: Alexa: Play W W One Centennial News Podcast. Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. [MUSIC] So long!
Highlights Web donations: ww1cc.org/donate Text-to-give donations: Text “wwi” to 91999 Learn more: ww1cc.org/memorial Being Thankful | @ 00:40 Mr. Terry Hamby, Chair of the WWI Centennial Commission | @ 04:00 The Honorable Ted Poe, Congressman | @ 10:10 The Honorable Emanuel Cleaver, Congressman | @ 14:30 General Mark A. Milley, 39th Chief of Staff of the Army | @ 18:00 Bob Vogel, director of the National Capital Region (NCR), National Park Service | @ 22:15 The Honorable David Shulkin, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | @ 27:05 Keith Harman, Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars | @ 30:10 Denise H. Rohan, National Commander, American Legion | @ 32:20 The Honorable Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington | @ 35:45 The Honorable Doug Lamborn, Congressman | @ 38:20 The Honorable Kevin Yoder, Congressman | @ 40:20----more---- Thanksgiving Special Fundraiser Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - The weekly podcast about WWI and the Centennial commemoration of the war that changed the world. WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the US World War One Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Welcome to our Thanksgiving week special show. [MUSIC] For this special week, where we traditionally celebrate with our families and give thanks for the bounty in our lives, we are bringing you a special episode of WWI Centennial News. We are celebrating with our now gone family of Americans who, 100 years ago took up the challenge, the mission and the fight to help end one of the most horrific periods in human history. We are going to take a moment to reflect and give thanks to their service and their sacrifice, whether they were soldiers, mothers, workers, men, women, children, even horses, mules and dogs - we are inviting you to join us in giving thanks to a nation committed to a cause. … not for territorial gain, not to dominate other nations or to stop other nations from directly dominating us -- but rather for a cause embodied in an idea and an ideal of liberty and freedom. Ideas we must never take for granted because we have them only courtesy of the commitment and sacrifice of our forbears. If this all sounds “schmaltzy” to you… just take a deep breath and wrap your head around this… people DIED for you to have this. Think of your own family and those you love and remember those who have lost their loved ones - for you. On this Thanksgiving 100 years ago, literally millions of Americans both here and on foreign shores were united in preparing, training, building, transforming, fighting and even dying because our people by and large felt is was simply the right thing to do in the cause of liberty and freedom for the people of the world. So let us all give thanks for what we have. Meanwhile, we, the World War One Centennial Commission also want to give thanks to the many of YOU who have supported, sponsored and donated to our work and our mission of bringing this rather amazing moment of our history out of it’s dusty trunk in the attic of our past and into the awareness of our present. During this week’s episode we are going to bring you highlights from the November 9th Ceremonial Groundbreaking for the National WWI memorial at Pershing Park in Washington DC. It was a watershed moment in our ambitious effort in building a memorial to honor the men and women who served 100 years ago in the war that changed the world. By law, no tax dollars can be used to build this memorial. It must be built with private funds and donations - in that regards, this truly IS America’s WWI memorial. So during this time of giving thanks and celebrating what we have, we are asking you for you financial support with a tax deductible donation to built this WWI memorial. We need your help to do it. We can’t do it without you. And it’s easy - just go to ww1cc.org/donate - it’s a really simple URL to remember - the letters w w the number 1 - the letters c c dot o r g/donate - ww1cc.org/donate… I a little while we’ll tell you how to donate by just sending us a text. But right now, from the ceremonial groundbreaking - Here is the chair of the World War One Centennial Commision - Commissioner Terry Hamby…. [Mr. Terry Hamby, Chair of the WWI Centennial Commission] You can help keep the faith with those who died - so they can rest in Flanders Field. We need your tax deductible donation to build their memorial… And of course we want to make that as easy as we can. So since many of you listen to our podcast on your smart devices, we have set it up so you can text a donation from your phone. It’s really easy. Go to your texting app and text the letters w w i to 91-999. Our text-to-give app is really easy, safe and you can donate any amount you choose. You can even make the donation in honor of your family or your ancestor! From the ceremonial groundbreaking, here is the congressman Ted Poe of Texas with a little background about his and Congressman Cleaver’s journey in getting congress to pass the law that established the memorial. [The Honorable Ted Poe, Congressman] It’s really a pleasure to be able to report that the centennial commemoration of WWI and the establishment of a national WWI memorial in Washington DC have served as an precious and rare area of bi-partisanship in our national legislature… this is truly a sign of honor and respect that all Americans have for those who serve and who have served our nation. And we’re appealing to you, whether your political leanings are Republican, or Democrat, Conservative or liberal to help build the memorial to commemorate those who answered the call 100 years ago. Give your thanks and honor those men and women of the past by sending a tax deductible gift - of any size - either by going to the website at ww1cc.org/donate or texting the letters wwi or ww1 to the phone address at 91-999. We’ll send you a receipt for your taxes and our sincere gratitude for your heart. Next, here is Congressman Emanuel Cleaver with a little insight into the bi-partisan collaboration that surrounds this worthy project. [The Honorable Emanuel Cleaver, Congressman] Congressman Cleaver said it well. No gift is complete until we say thank you. We’re asking you - to say thank to our WWI veterans on this thanksgiving Holiday with a donation to their memorial - which completes their gift of sacrifice and service to us.. Please make a tax deductible donation - whatever you can - a dollar, 11 dollars and 11 cents for 11/11, 50, a hundred or a thousand.. Remember your own - with a gift specifically in the name of someone who has served our nation. Please go to to ww1cc.org/donate, or by texting wwi or ww1 to 91-999 now. You know it’s really important to remember and to be clear - we are commemorating WW1 - we are NOT celebrating it. War is not something to celebrate… War is a terrible thing! and to give you some insight into that - perhaps from an unexpected source - is the 39th Chief of Staff of the Army - [General Mark A. Milley, 39th Chief of Staff of the Army] Giving thanks is about caring… participating in the ceremonial groundbreaking is a project partner who will be taking on that task. Here is Bob Vogel from the National Park Service - whose national memorial role may not be something you are familiar with! [Bob Vogel, director of the National Capital Region (NCR), National Park Service] We want to remind you that the law specifically prohibits government funds from paying for this memorial - so none of this is possible without YOUR help. We need your contribution to build this memorial. So if you are listening on your smartphone - pause this podcast RIGHT NOW then go to your texting application, type 91-999 into the address field - type the letters w w i into the message field and press send - you’ll get a reply immediately that will allow you to make a contribution of any size to help build YOUR memorial to WWI in our nation’s capital! Then come back here and listen to the rest of the show - we’ve got some good stuff coming - and you’ll be feeling really good as you listen! We are a nation committed to honoring those who served - Honoring our WWI veterans is LONG overdue. Our next three speakers live, breath, service and support veterans - starting with the administration’s new Secretary of Veterans Affairs - the honorable David Shulkin [The Honorable David Shulkin, Secretary of Veterans Affairs] Both the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars have stepped up on this project with significant contributions to the WW1 memorial. We want to thank them and their memberships for supporting the project so generously. Here are Keith Harman, Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Denise H. Rohan, National Commander, American Legion [Keith Harman, Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars] [Denise H. Rohan, National Commander, American Legion] Again, thank you to both the VFW and American Legion national organizations for their substantial and very important financial support of the WWI memorial in Washington DC - a city that is currently run by the honorable Mayor Muriel Bowser. As you’ll hear, she and the city are very supportive and looking forward to having this new and important commemorative feature as a part of the Nation’s capital. [The Honorable Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington] So we have been pretty direct with you today - We need your help and contributions to build the WWI memorial! And although congress did not allow for any tax dollars to help, here is congressman Doug Lamborn who is going to tell us about a WWI commemorative coin that congress authorized - AND - with a portion of the proceeds available to help pay for the memorial. [The Honorable Doug Lamborn, Congressman] And to close out our thanksgiving special fundraiser for the WWI memorial, we have Congressman Kevin Yoder - with some thank yous of his own! [The Honorable Kevin Yoder, Congressman] So happy Thanksgiving to you and your family - Thanks for the time you’ve taken here today to reflect, hear about and remember those who have served and those who have paid to make our American way of life possible. Thank you for your generous contribution to our effort to commemorate and honor the men and women who gave us so much 100 years ago in the war that changed the world. And one last time, here is how you can contribute to the memorial and learn more about it.. Using a web browser, go to ww1cc.org - just type the letters w w the number 1 and c c dot o r g… that is the commission’s home page. When you get there on the top left of the page is a panel about the memorial. You can click on Donate Today or Memorial Mesign to learn about the details of the design, the location, the designers and more - it’s a pretty interesting site.. Or - really easy and fast - you can text to donate - send the simple text message “wwi” to the number 91-999. You’ll get a message right back that links you up with a donation page on your smartphone. Happy thanksgiving to all of you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for giving. Thank you for caring. We do this work for the doughboys and for you. It is our privilege! World War One Centennial news will be back next week with our regular program. I’m Theo Mayer, the Commission’s chief technologist and your host. [Music] So long.
WWI Centennial News SPECIAL This week and next week, we are going to break format as we present a 2-part special podcast version of “In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace”. This two part special is an adaptation from a live staged event the Commission produced on the April 6, 2017 centennial of America’s entry into: The war that changed the world. Edward Bilous as the artistic director, and Chris Christopher as the US WW1 Centennial Commission’s executive producer pulled together an amazing group of artists, historians musician, actors, and others for a live performance staged outdoors at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City to an audience of over 3,000 attendees. For this 2-part special we have excerpted key moments from the story that unfolds, the music that was performed and the readings from a cast of amazing actors, orators, musicians and other luminaries. Part 1 examines the great debate in America about getting into the war----more---- Talent Credits This podcast was adapted from the live event In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace: Centennial Commemoration of the US entry into WWI Credits for the live event include: Edward Bilous Artistic Director John Rensenhouse Narrator Michelle DiBucci Music Director Sarah Outhwaite Video Designer Carlos Murillo Script and Adaptation Greg Kalember Music Producer, Mix Engineer, Sound Design Portia Kamons Executive Artistic Producer For Virtua Creative Shelby Rose Producer, Media and Special Events For Virtua Creative Dale Morehouse Speaker Carla Noack Speaker David Paul Pre-Recorded Speaker Janith English Principal Chief of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas Sergeant Debra Kay Mooney Choctaw Nation Col. Gerald York Grandson of Sergeant Alvin C. York Deborah York Great-Granddaughter of Sergeant Alvin C. York Noble Sissle Jr. Son of Noble Sissle Featuring Musical Performances by 1st Infantry Division Band Michael Baden John Brancy Francesco Centano Billy Cliff Peter Dugan Ramona Dunlap Lisa Fisher Samantha Gossard Adam Holthus Christopher T. McLaurin Chrisi Poland Aaron Redburn Reuben Allen Matt Rombaum Alan Schwartz Yang Thou Charles Yang Alla Wijnands Bram Wijnands Cast (In Alphabetical Order) Freddy Acevedo Yetunde Felix-Ukwu Jason Francescon Khalif Gillett Emilie Karas Chelsea Kisner Christopher Lyman Marianne McKenzie Victor Raider-Wexler Artillery Master Charles B. Wood MEDIA CREDITS National World War I Museum and Memorial: TheWorldWar.org Library of Congress: LOC.gov New York Public Library: DigitalCollections.nypl.org National Archives: Archives.gov National Historic Geographic Information System: NHGIS.org State Library of New South Wales: SL.nsw.gov.au Imperial War Museums: IWM.org.uk National Museum of African American History and Culture: NMAAHC.si.edu The Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation and the York Family: SgtYork.org Australian War Memorial: AWM.gov.au National Media Museum: NationalMediaMuseum.org.uk Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Archive: WoodrowWilson.org Mathers Museum of World Culture: Mathers.indiana.edu Front Page Courtesy of The New York Times Company PODCAST THEO MAYER 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. Before we get into the main part of the show - - Let me try to set this up: [SOUND EFFECT - WAYBACK MACHINE] We’ve gone back in time to June 28, 1914. Today, a 19 year-old radicalized teenage Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip guns down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie - ON their wedding anniversary no less. So this was all kicked off by a misguided kid - after all - what does anybody know about consequences at 19, and gunning down celebrities - is - pretty dumb and definitely misguided. And the archduke was a celebrity - he was in line for the throne of the Austro-hungarian empire. Things are already pretty tense in Europe! Austria-Hungary, blames the Serbian government for the attack and sees this as great justification for settling the question of Slavic nationalism once and for all - with a little war action. BUT…. Russia supports Serbia, SO… Austria-Hungary asked Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm to back them in the event of a Russian intervention… An intervention that would probably suck in Russia’s ally, France, and maybe Britain too. So - Just a month later on July 28, 1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and a big burning match gets tossed on the very dry tinder of european tension… the tenuous peace between Europe’s big powers goes up in flames. Within a week, Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Serbia line up against the Austria-Hungary and Germany, and World War I begin. But remember - no one knows at the time that this is a global war. It’s just a little imperial action which Germany sees as a great opportunity - Remember - in German the word Kaiser means EMPEROR - so emperor Wilhelm thinks that this is a good time to expand German imperial holding with a rush west - across Belgium - to deliver a quick and decisive blow to France for an imperially profitable end to a simple, messy little conflict. BUT….at the First Battle of The Marne, 90 miles from Paris, the German plan falls apart and the Germans suffer a defeat at the hands of the Allies – over a million soldiers face off and fight over 6 days, and sadly more than 100,000 die. This is where we join up with the live production beginning with a quote from Barbara Tuchman from her book - The GUNS OF AUGUST: “After the Marne, the war grew and spread until it drew in the nations of both hemispheres and entangled them in a... world conflict no peace treaty could dissolve. The Battle of Marne was one of the decisive battles… not because it determined that Germany would ultimately lose or the Allies ultimately win the war, but because it determined that the war would go on…. The nations were caught in a trap… from which there was… no exit.” NARRATOR Even with the United States remaining resolutely neutral, many young Americans needed no persuasion to join the War effort. Mary Gladwin, a nurse from Akron, Ohio, was among the first American Red Cross nurses to go to Europe during the War, serving as the supervisor of nurses at the American Hospital in Belgrade. She wrote: MARY GLADWIN The cannonading lasted all the time. There was no time during twenty-four hours in the first six months that some of the guns were not fired. My room was a little whitewashed one. Every time one of the big French guns would fire.... It would illuminate all the wall and then... I would hear the boom of the guns. That kept up night after night, until the time came that we did not hear them any more… NARRATOR Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot to fly in World War I, did so not for the United States, but for France. The son of a freed slave, Bullard stowed away to Europe in 1912, determined to escape racism in the US. After working as a boxer and vaudeville performer in England, Bullard settled in France. When hostilities broke out, he joined the infantry of the French Foreign Legion, earning the Croix de Guerre for bravery at the Battle of Verdun. After sustaining injuries and declared unfit for infantry service, Bullard earned his wings with the Aeronautique Militaire of France, and joined the Lafayette Flying Corps in 1916. His plane was decorated with the slogan” “All Blood Runs Red.” When the US entered the war, Bullard tried to enlist as a flyer for the Americans: BULLARD “I was more and more puzzled until it suddenly came to me that all my fellow countrymen who had transferred were white. Later, I learned that in World War I Negroes were not accepted as flyers in the United States Army. This hurt me, deeply.” THEO MAYER When hostilities broke out in Europe, thousands of Americans touring the continent descended on London hoping to find safe passage home, only to find themselves unable to obtain accommodations or tickets for the few ships sailing. A forty year old mining engineer and financier from Iowa by the name of Herbert Hoover was living in London in 1914. Hoover organized an American relief committee that provided food, shelter and financial assistance to over 100,000 Americans. Hoover’s leadership earned him the respect of the US Ambassador to Great Britain, Walter Hines Page. Ambassador Page tapped Hoover to lead a relief mission to Belgium. After the Battle of Marne, Belgium faced starvation. Germany had invaded, but refused to take responsibility for feeding the populace. On the other side, Britain’s Naval blockade prevented ships from entering Belgian ports. So in October of 1914, Herbert Hoover established an organization to procure and deliver food to the starving Belgian population, rescuing a nation from certain ruin. Herbert Hoover wrote: HERBERT HOOVER "...there was no former human experience to turn for guidance. It would require that we find the major food supply for a whole nation; raise the money to pay for it; get it past navies at sea and occupying armies on land; set up an agency for distribution of supplies for everybody justly; and see that the enemy took none of it. It was not ‘relief’ in any known sense. It was the feeding of a nation. THEO MAYER This will later earn Herbert Hoover the job of heading the united states food administration… and of course he also becomes the 31st President of the United State [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline May 8, 1915 Headline of the NY times reads: LUSITANIA SUNK BY SUBMARINE, PROBABLY 1,260 DEAD; TWICE TORPEDOED OFF IRISH COAST; SINKS IN 15 MINUTES; FROHMAN AND VANDERBILT MISSING; WASHINGTON BELIEVES THAT A GRAVE CRISIS IS AT HAND SONG: WHEN THE LUSITANIA WENT DOWN A thousand more, who sailed from our shore, Have gone to eternity. The Statue of Liberty high Must now have a tear in her eye. I think it's a shame-- Some one is to blame, But all we can do is just sigh! Chorus Some of us lost a true sweetheart; Some of us lost a dear dad; Some lost their mothers, sisters, and brothers; Some lost the best friends they had. It's time they were stopping this warfare If women and children must drown. Many brave hearts went to sleep in the deep When the Lusitania went down. Refrain Many brave hearts went to sleep in the deep When the Lusitania went down. THEO MAYER US neutrality faced numerous tests. Vying for control over shipping lanes across the Atlantic and through the North Sea, Germany and Britain both found themselves on a collision course with the United States. Britain, in their effort to blockade commerce from the US reaching Germany, seized American ships. Germany, in retaliation to US shipments, introduced a new weapon of war – the U-Boat – which could strike without warning. In 1915, German U-Boats sank over 90 ships. NARRATOR Leading up to the Election of 1916, many Americans favored the Allies in the War, yet embraced President Wilson’s urging to remain “impartial in thought as well as in action.” At the time, one third of US citizens were either born in Europe or were descendants of European immigrants. Sympathy for both countries on both sides of the conflict ran high. The descendants of German immigrants found themselves torn, on the one hand identifying firstly as Americans, yet on the other, sympathizing with their relatives abroad. When the US entered the War, German-Americans were labeled “alien enemies” and faced severe restrictions on their civil liberties. Irish Americans preferred neutrality as well, as the prospect of the U.S. entering the War on the side of the British was an anathema to Irish nationalist sentiment. The sinking of the Lusitania led many Americans to call for an immediate reprisal against Germany. Wilson proceeded with caution, demanding an apology, compensation for the victims and assurances that Germany would cease unrestricted submarine warfare. In a speech delivered at a Citizen Naturalization Ceremony on May 10, 1915, Wilson affirmed the anti-War US stance: WILSON “America must have this consciousness, that on all sides it touches elbows and touches hearts with all the nations of mankind. The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing… influence of the world.... There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.” NARRATOR Wilson’s measured response faced opposition from figures like former President Theodore Roosevelt, who believed Germany’s aggression warranted a strong military response: THEODORE ROOSEVELT “I am pretty well disgusted with our government and with the way our people acquiesce in and support it. I suppose, however, in a democracy like ours the people will always do well or ill largely in proportion to their leadership. If Lincoln had acted after the firing on Sumter in the way that Wilson did about the sinking of the Lusitania, in one month the North would have been saying they were so glad he kept them out of the war and… that at all hazards fratricidal war must be averted.” NARRATOR Theodore Roosevelt’s words were not mere bluster. He would eventually see three of his sons off to war. Two would return alive. His youngest son, Quentin, died when he was shot down over France in 1918. THEO MAYER The conflict about US neutrality didn't just rage in Washington, but was reflected throughout american society and culture - Here is the great debate playing out as musical counterpoint in two popular songs of the times sung from the hearts of two mothers. SONG MEDLEY: “I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier” - “America, Here’s My Boy” Verse 1 There’s a million mothers knocking at the nation’s door A million mothers, yes and they’ll be millions more, And while within each mother’s heart they pray Just hark what one brave mother has to say: Chorus America, I raised a boy for you America, you’ll find him staunch and true Place a gun upon his shoulder He is ready to die or do America, he is my only one; My hope, my pride and joy, But if I had another, He would march beside his brother; America here’s my boy Verse 2 There’s a million mothers waiting by the fireside bright A million mothers waiting for the call tonight And while within each heart there’ll be a tear She’ll watch her boy go marching with a cheer Chorus America, I raised a boy for you America, you’ll find him staunch and true Place a gun upon his shoulder He is ready to die o My hope, my pride and joy, But if I had another, He would march beside his brother; America here’s my boy. Verse 1 Ten million soldiers to the war have gone Who may never return again Ten million mothers’ hearts must break For the ones who died in vain Head bowed down in sorrow in her lonely years I heard a mother murmur thro’ her tears: Chorus: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy.” Who dares place a musket on his shoulder To shoot some other mother’s darling boy? Let nations arbitrate their future troubles, It’s time to lay the sword and gun away. There’d be no war today If mothers all would say: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier.” Verse 2 What victory can cheer a mother’s heart When she looks at her blighted home? What victory can bring her back All she cared to call her own? Let each mother answer in the years to be, Remember that my boy belongs to me! Chorus: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy.” Who dares place a musket on his shoulder To shoot some other mother’s darling boy? Let nations arbitrate their future troubles, It’s time to lay the sword and gun away. NARRATOR At the other end of the political spectrum, the editors of the conservative North American Review argued for U.S. participation: THE EDITORS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW We know now… what this war is. It is the last of the great battles for Freedom and Democracy. America fought the first a century and forty years ago. France followed through seas of blood and tears. But lately the Great Charter has passed… from the barons to the people of England. Japan has ceased to be a monarchy except in name. China as a Republic defies the power of might…. Can anyone doubt that the beginning of the end of absolutism is at hand….? NARRATOR Legendary newspaper reporter Walter Lippman offered this third-way assessment of the role America could play in the War: WALTER LIPPMANN In May 1916, the President made a speech which will be counted among the... decisive utterances of American foreign policy…. The speech was an announcement that American isolation was ended, and that we were prepared to join a League of Peace….. …it was intended to make clear to the world… that if America has to fight, it would fight for peace and the order of the world. It was a great portent in human history, but it was overshadowed at the time by the opening of the Presidential campaign.” THEO MAYER The United States, like Canada and the British Empire, absorbed a massive influx of immigrants from the end of the 19th Century through the war. Capitalizing on the idea that immigrants traveled to distant shores seeking freedom from tyranny, recruitment efforts in all three countries appealed to immigrants’ indebtedness – in exchange for their freedom, and their children’s freedom, they were urged to show their patriotism by enlisting in the fight. “THERE’S NO HYPHEN IN MY HEART” SONG Verse 1 To these broad shores my fathers came From lands beyond the sea They left their homes they left their friends To breathe an air more free To them an alien land it seemed With customs strange and new But my heart knows just one dear flag The Red, the White, the Blue Chorus: There is no hyphen in my heart It can’t be cut in two Oh flag of bars and silver stars I’ve given it all to you Verse 2 Columbia to me you’ve been A mother fond and true My heart’s best love and loyal trust I gladly offer you Let others sing of native lands Far o’er the ocean’s foam The spot where floats the stars and stripes Shall ever be my home Chorus: There is no hyphen in my heart It can’t be cut in two Oh flag of bars and silver stars I’ve given it all to you NARRATOR The 1916 election hinged on the question of America’s neutrality in the War. Wilson, running for a second term, built his candidacy around the idea that America ought to prepare for the possibility of war, yet the campaign slogans “He Kept Us Out of War” and “America First” persuaded the American public that a vote for the Republican candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, would be a vote for war. While many embraced the slogans, others criticized them. Teddy Roosevelt: TEDDY ROOSEVELT President Wilson’s ignoble shirking of responsibility has been mis-clothed in… the phrase of a coward, “He Kept Us Out of War.” In actual reality, war has been creeping nearer. . . and we face it without policy, plan, purpose, or preparation. NARRATOR In September 1916, Wilson accepted the Democratic nomination for President: WILSON “We have been neutral not only because it was the fixed and traditional policy of the United States to stand aloof from the politics of Europe… but also because it was manifestly our duty to prevent … the indefinite extension of the fires of hate and desolation kindled by that terrible conflict and seek to serve mankind by reserving our strength and our resources for the… difficult days of restoration and healing …, when peace will have to build its house anew.” NARRATOR The Debate reached every corner of American society. Voices for and against the US joining the war included not only politicians, but men who would likely be called to serve, women, African Americans and Native Americans fighting for an equal role in American Civic life. NARRATOR American Arthur Bullard, who had lived in war-time France and England, wrote in early 1917: ARTHUR BULLARD Whatever the diplomats may like to call it, this is War. And we do not know how to fight…. We have no American general who ever commanded an Army corps, not one of our naval officers ever fought against a Dreadnought, none of our artillery men ever fired a real shot at an enemy aircraft. We must learn…. The war is upon us and we... must decide what we are going to do about it… We who love peace ought to keep out of war as long as possible and when we are forced to go in – go in hard! NARRATOR For women, the prospect of war also provoked debate. Many nurses of the American Red Cross nurses had experienced the tribulations of War first hand. Jane Delano, founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service, wrote in the winter of 1915: JANE DELANO We have learned that women can be mobilized without confusion; that their chances of illness when ... seem to be no greater than men’s; that they face danger with equanimity…. Out of this experience we should be…. able to guarantee a satisfactory nursing personnel not only for national relief in time of calamity, but for efficient service should our country be confronted with that greatest of all disasters – War. NARRATOR A year later, Bessie R. James of the National League for Women’s Service wrote: BESSIE R. JAMES On November 8, 1916, the foresight of the women… is something which cannot but arouse admiration. That anyone should organize to prepare half the populace of the country for war while a president was being put back into office because of a supposed peace policy would seem ridiculous. This however, was exactly what happened. NARRATOR The first years of the War coincided with the beginning of The Great Migration, a transformative period for African Americans who fled the entrenched racism of the south for better wages and living conditions in northern cities like Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit and New York. At the outbreak of war, many African Americans viewed service in the military as an opportunity to show their willingness to serve and improve on their standing as second-class citizens. Others were more skeptical. In a 1917 issue of The Messenger, Chandler Owen and A. Phillip Randolph challenged the hypocrisy of American democratic ideals in relation to African American struggle: OWEN & RANDOLPH; Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. NARRATOR In his 1914 editorial, “World War and the Color Line,” W.E.B. Dubois drew connections between the crisis in Europe and the conditions experienced by African Americans at home: W.E.B. DUBOIS Many colored persons… may easily make the mistake of supposing that the present war is far removed from the color problem in America…. This attitude is a mistake. The present war in Europe is one of the great disasters due to race and color prejudice and it but foreshadows greater disasters in the future…. NARRATOR As the likelihood of war increased in early 1917, DuBois again unleashed his pen to reflect on the institution of segregated training camps: W.E.B. DUBOIS We must choose then between the insult of a separate camp and the irreparable injury of strengthening the present custom of putting no black men in positions of authority here is only one thing to do now, and that is to organize the colored people for leadership and service, if war should come. A thousand commissioned officers of colored blood is something to work for. NARRATOR Diplomat, lawyer, and official of the NAACP James Weldon Johnson called for an end to what he termed the “Excess Patriotism” which had led the world’s nations to war: JOHNSON It is this hot, high-tempered, foolish, bad-mannered patriotism that keeps farther away the day for which all lovers of humanity pray; the day when men shall not hate each other because of the boundaries of domain or the differences of race, but when universal brotherhood shall be established and a lasting peace shall reign. ARE THEY EQUAL IN THE EYES OF THE LAW SONG Verse 1 As they sit in consultation Seeking peace for the wide, wide world I wonder if their thought e’er turn to me. I was at the concentration of the troops that stopt the whirl Of the Kaiser in his dash to the sea. As I sit in meditation Seeking solace from on high I wonder if they see I stand in awe, As they plan the federation for the races far and nigh Are they equal in the eyes of the law? Chorus: Are they equal in the eyes of the law? The black man faced his death and cried, “Hurrah?” His soul was pure and white, He fought a manly fight, No more patriotic sons you ever saw Are they equal in the eyes of the law? The black man faced his death and cried, “Hurrah?” They were the same in no man’s land, Tell me how so they stand? Are they equal in the eyes of the law? Verse 3 God, the Father of creation, Hear, oh, hear my humble plea, As with contrite heart I call thy holy name. In this land of desolation, Where they lynch and torture me, Keep them, Father, from this life of sin and shame. Oh thou God of restitution, Though with vengeance in Thy hand, We pray Thee, Keep us from grim hatred’s mighty claw Show them, Lord, that retribution, Runs its course throughout the land, To make men equal in the eyes of the law. Chorus: Are they equal in the eyes of the law? The black man faced his death and cried, “Hurrah?” His soul was pure and white, He fought a manly fight, No more patriotic sons you ever saw Are they equal in the eyes of the law? The black man faced his death and cried, “Hurrah?” They were the same to the God of the hosts, Tell me in your Freedom’s boasts, Are they equal in the eyes of the law? NARRATOR America’s native peoples overwhelmingly supported the United States during the Great War, although a few leaders such as Dr. Carlos Montezuma, a Yavapai-Apache, objected. He wrote: CARLOS MONTEZUMA They are not citizens. They have fewer privileges than have foreigners. They are wards of the United States of America without their consent or the chance of protest on their part. NARRATOR But most Indian leaders saw the conflict as an opportunity to gain recognition and to affirm tribal sovereignty, as did the Onondaga and Oneida Nations that declared war on Germany. In 1917, Oglala Chief Red Fox, a nephew of Crazy Horse, went to Washington and urged Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, to offer the services of the Indians in the Great War: CHIEF RED FOX From all over the West, we now stand ready--fifty thousand Indians between the ages of seventeen and fifty-five. We beg of you, to give us the right to fight. We guarantee to you, sir, our hearts could be for no better cause than to fight for the land we love, and for the freedom we share. NARRATOR Chief Red Fox’s sentiments were echoed by the Seneca Arthur Parker, President of the Society of American Indians in 1917, who wrote: ARTHUR PARKER The American Indian has common cause with the Allies. The Indian fights because he loves freedom and because humanity needs the defense of the freedom loving man. The Indian fights because his country, his liberties, his ideals and his manhood are assailed by the brutal hypocrisy of Prussianism. Challenged, the Indian has... shown himself a citizen of the world, [and] an exponent of an ethical civilization wherein human liberty is assured. NARRATOR The outcome of the 1916 election reflected divisions in the country. Winning by a slim Electoral College margin, Wilson’s second term would soon face a series of crises that would determine the fate of his neutral position in the war. NARRATOR - ALL READERS While debate raged in America, the slaughter continued in Europe. Rapid advances in the technology of weapons of war led to vast devastation. For the first time in history the battlefield saw the use of tanks, chemical weapons, machine guns, long-range artillery and aircraft. Sixty five million men fought in the War from 40 countries. Twenty one million were wounded. Eight million died – roughly 3,000 every day. Six and a half million civilians were killed including two million in Russia alone. One hundred and ten thousand tons of poison gas was used, killing nearly half a million men. In Europe alone, approximately 10 million people were displaced by the war, including 1.8 million Armenians forcibly deported to the Syrian desert. 1.5 million Belgians were refugees from the Germans. In the Battle of Somme, fought between July and November of 1916, 1.2 million men perished for a meager Allied gain of 7.8 miles of territory. During the Battle of Somme, it is estimated that in the first week of fighting over one and one half million artillery shells were fired… almost three shells per second for 168 continuous hours. (NEED THIS STATISTIC!!) Never before had humankind unleashed terror on this scale and it’s effects permanently scarred the landscape and the souls of those who were there. THEO MAYER And that is the end of part 1 of “In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace” Join us again next week for part II The US World War One Centennial Commission was created by Congress to honor, commemorate and educate about WW1. Our programs are to-- inspire a national conversation and awareness about WW1; Our podcast is a part of that endeavor We are bringing the lessons of the 100 years ago into today's classrooms; We are helping to restore WW1 memorials in communities of all sizes across our country; and of course we are building America’s National WW1 Memorial in Washington DC. If you like the work we are doing, please support it with a tax deductible donation at ww1cc.org/donate - all lower case Or if you are on your smart phone text the word: WW1 to 41444. that's the letters ww the number 1 texted to 41444. Any amount is appreciated. We want to thank commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library for their support. The podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn on iTunes and google play ww1 Centennial News. Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. Thanks for listening to this special presentation of WW1 Centennial News… A full list of the many talented people who contributed to this production is in the podcast notes. [MUSIC] So long.
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