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Sheila White's parents met in Nova Scotia just after the Second World War. As she describes in her biographical novel, "The Letters: Postmark Prejudice in Black and White," it was a love story for the ages. With one caveat: Vivien was white, Billy was Black. How they forged their relationship against family and societal disapproval provides a snapshot into the fraught race relations of the time, and how two individuals worked to dispel narrow thoughts about who they were and what their life together would be based on their differences. She talks to Jeyan Jeganathan about hers and her parents' anti-racism advocacy and what she learned by delving into their story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the latest episode of our heartfelt and engaging podcast series on Spotify, where Ramin and Mehrshad invite you to a cozy virtual tea party filled with stories, laughter, and valuable life lessons. Join us as we explore the depths of cultural experiences, personal resilience, and the power of human connection. In this special installment, Ramin opens up about a poignant chapter from his life, reflecting on his upbringing during the tumultuous Iran-Iraq war. With raw honesty and vulnerability, he shares the profound impact of rediscovering the heartfelt letters penned by his mother, offering listeners a window into his journey of self-discovery and emotional healing. But this podcast isn't just about the past – it's also a celebration of the present and a beacon of hope for the future. As Ramin and Mehrshad delve into discussions about mental resilience and the importance of staying strong in the face of adversity, their words resonate with authenticity and empathy, reminding us all of our innate capacity for growth and transformation. From light-hearted anecdotes to deep philosophical insights, this episode is a tapestry of human experiences woven with threads of laughter, tears, and everything in between. So grab your headphones, pour yourself a steaming cup of tea, and immerse yourself in this captivating conversation that transcends borders and touches hearts. Join the dialogue on Spotify using these hashtags: #HeartfeltConversations #PersianPride #TeaTimeTales #StrengthInUnity. And remember to hit that follow button to stay updated on future episodes – because life is better when we journey together.

Bidisha, Peter Conradi and Lucy Bolton join Matthew Sweet to read the moral philosophy book published by Iris Murdoch in 1970. Murdoch, who died aged 79, 25 years ago on Feb 8th 1999, was a writer of novels and philosophy books which explored the nature of good/evil, the role of the unconscious and of sex and love. In 1978 she won the Booker prize for her story The Sea, The Sea and in 1987 she was made a Dame. Lucy Bolton has written about Iris Murdoch, philosophy and cinema; novelist and critic Bidisha is a fan, Peter J Conradi, who is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kingston, was a friend of Iris Murdoch and author of books including Iris Murdoch: A Life, A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45, The Saint and Artist: A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, and his autobiography Family Business: A Memoir which talks of his friendship with her.The Iris Murdoch Research Centre is at the University of Chichester. You might also like another Free Thinking discussion on rewriting 20th-century British philosophy and women philosophers including Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley,Producer: Luke Mulhall

On the latest Whisper in the Wings from Stage Whisper, we were joined by Charlotte Purser (playwright/actress), Ana Margineanu (director), and we welcomed back actor Jens Rasmussen, to talk about their latest wok, The War Letters. We discussed the powerful inspiration behind this show, the impactful message behind it, and learned some wonderful insight from our guests. So make sure you join us for this great interview, and for this amazing show!ThisThistle Media in association with Bechdel Project PresentsThe War LettersDecember 15th- 21st@ WP TheaterTickets and more information are available at thisthistle.comAnd be sure to follow our guests to stay up to date on all their upcoming projects and productions:The War Letters: thisthistle.comCharlotte: charlottepurser.com and @charlotteincAna: anamargineanu.net and @ana.margineanuJens: jensrasmussen.info

War Letters of a Public-School Boy

All credit for this letter and its editing goes to David H. Lowenherz. The letter comes from the book The 50 Greatest Letters From Americas Wars

Paul Selig is a writer, teacher, and intuitive living in New York City. He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and serves on the playwriting faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His work for the theater has been performed internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, the Joyce Theater, En Garde Arts, The Long Wharf Theater, Teatro Plastico and the Ensemble Studio Theater. His plays include the one woman show Mystery School (performed by Tyne Daly), the stage adaptation of War Letters (with Treat Williams and Mario van Peebles), additional material for the national tour of Tallulah (with Kathleen Turner), Terminal Bar, the Pompeii Traveling Show (NY Drama League Award), Moon City and Body Parts. His operas include the trilogy 3 Visitations. He collaborated with Shapiro and Smith Dance Company on Notes From a Séance and Never Enough. He recently completed a credited rewrite of Truth in Translation, commissioned by South Africa's Market Theater and the Colonnades Theater Lab. His work is published in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Plays of 1996-97; Gay Plays 3 and The Best Short Plays of 1988. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Paul had a spiritual experience in 1987 that left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience, he studied a form of energy healing, working at Marianne Williamson's Manhattan Center for Living and in private practice. He began to "hear" for his clients, and much of Paul's work now is as a clairaudient, clairvoyant, channel, and empath. Paul has led channeled energy groups for 15 years. Paul was invited to channel at the Esalen institute's 2009 invitational Superpowers and the Supernormal symposium and is featured in the upcoming documentary film Authors of the Impossible. - www.TacherBooks.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Montgomery J. Granger is a three-time mobilized U.S. Army Reserve Major (Ret.), who was called into his Reserve Center in Uniondale (Long Island), New York, on 9/11, in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, which crashed at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He answered his country's call to duty next in January 2002 for a mission to help run the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was called up again just six months after returning from duty at Gitmo, but this time remained stateside at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center at Fort Dix, New Jersey. After nearly six months at Fort Dix, MAJ Granger returned to civilian life for about a year when he was involuntarily transferred to another Reserve Army unit that was deploying to Iraq in the fall of 2004. Major Granger served 14 months of active duty on his third deployment and served in Baghdad, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, and Ashraf, Iraq, as Medical Service officer for military detention facility operations. He is married and is the father of five children, and lives on Long Island, New York. He is also the author of "Theodore," a personal narrative published in the 2006 Random House wartime anthology "Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families," where he wrote about his fear and anxiety over having left his family in 2002, and especially two-day-old Theodore, and what reaction there was upon his return. Operation Homecoming was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and edited by Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestselling book, War Letters. Granger was born in Illinois, raised and schooled in Rubidoux, California, and attended undergraduate school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. He earned a master's degree in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College-Columbia University, where he met his wife. He also attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned professional credits to obtain a New York State School District Administrators' license. He is an accomplished coach and teacher of health and physical education, having taught in Alabama, California, New York City, and Long Island, before becoming a director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics. He was most recently Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics, and then District Administrator for Operations for the Comsewogue school district in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., and is now a Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics, and Director of Facilities for an Eastern Long Island school district. Granger is the author of many writings and musing as yet unpublished, but hopefully soon to be shared with a waiting world. - http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/SavingGraceAtGuantanamoBay.html******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Andrew Carroll, playwright, author and founding director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University, talks with Tango Alpha Lima about his work to preserve war letters, how he got started, and how of collecting correspondence has led to the creation of the virtual Museum of American War Letters and his new podcast, "Behind the Lines: The Worlds Greatest War Letters and the Stories Behind Them." Andrew shares some of the most unique and compelling letters from his collection as well as some of the stories behind them. Special Guest: Andrew Carroll.

Paul Selig is a writer, teacher, and intuitive living in New York City. He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and serves on the playwriting faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His work for the theater has been performed internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, the Joyce Theater, En Garde Arts, The Long Wharf Theater, Teatro Plastico and the Ensemble Studio Theater. His plays include the one woman show Mystery School (performed by Tyne Daly), the stage adaptation of War Letters (with Treat Williams and Mario van Peebles), additional material for the national tour of Tallulah (with Kathleen Turner), Terminal Bar, the Pompeii Traveling Show (NY Drama League Award), Moon City and Body Parts. His operas include the trilogy 3 Visitations. He collaborated with Shapiro and Smith Dance Company on Notes From a Séance and Never Enough. He recently completed a credited rewrite of Truth in Translation, commissioned by South Africa's Market Theater and the Colonnades Theater Lab. His work is published in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Plays of 1996-97; Gay Plays 3 and The Best Short Plays of 1988. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Paul had a spiritual experience in 1987 that left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience, he studied a form of energy healing, working at Marianne Williamson's Manhattan Center for Living and in private practice. He began to "hear" for his clients, and much of Paul's work now is as a clairaudient, clairvoyant, channel, and empath. Paul has led channeled energy groups for 15 years. Paul was invited to channel at the Esalen institute's 2009 invitational Superpowers and the Supernormal symposium and is featured in the upcoming documentary film Authors of the Impossible. - www.TacherBooks.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Host Scott Fisher opens this Classic Rewind show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. David begins by losing his head over a story about Marie Antoinette's mirror. It's a mirror, mirror on a wall in England, but until recently no one knew its origins. David shares some details. Then, a teen in Britain has made a fascinating find on a British mountainside that impacted a family in Australia. Hear what he discovered. Next, there's been another astounding discovery in England… a massive Anglo-Saxon grave site going back 4,000 years. Find out about the objects found there. Then, Smithsonian has shared a remarkable story about a female spy who started out cracking mobster codes in the 1930s, and eventually broke open a Nazi ring in South America a decade later. Catch the story of Elizabeth Smith Freedman. And finally, Megan Smolenyak has published some of her findings on the origins of new President Joe Biden. Are you related? Next, Fisher visits with Loretto Thompson. A few years back Loretto learned about a treasure trove of letters from her father to the family during his time serving in World War II. He died when Loretto was only four years old, and the letters have led her on a remarkable journey… even by genie standards! Then, Dr. Henry Louis Gates is back to talk about the next episode of Finding Your Roots on PBS. David returns for the final segment as the guys answer another question on Ask Us Anything. That's all this week on Extreme Genes, America's Family History Show!

Montgomery J. Granger is a three-time mobilized U.S. Army Reserve Major (Ret.), who was called into his Reserve Center in Uniondale (Long Island), New York, on 9/11, in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, which crashed at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He answered his country's call to duty next in January 2002 for a mission to help run the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was called up again just six months after returning from duty at Gitmo, but this time remained stateside at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center at Fort Dix, New Jersey. After nearly six months at Fort Dix, MAJ Granger returned to civilian life for about a year when he was involuntarily transferred to another Reserve Army unit that was deploying to Iraq in the fall of 2004. Major Granger served 14 months of active duty on his third deployment and served in Baghdad, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, and Ashraf, Iraq, as Medical Service officer for military detention facility operations. He is married and is the father of five children, and lives on Long Island, New York. He is also the author of "Theodore," a personal narrative published in the 2006 Random House wartime anthology "Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families," where he wrote about his fear and anxiety over having left his family in 2002, and especially two-day-old Theodore, and what reaction there was upon his return. Operation Homecoming was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and edited by Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestselling book, War Letters. Granger was born in Illinois, raised and schooled in Rubidoux, California, and attended undergraduate school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. He earned a master's degree in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College-Columbia University, where he met his wife. He also attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned professional credits to obtain a New York State School District Administrators' license. He is an accomplished coach and teacher of health and physical education, having taught in Alabama, California, New York City, and Long Island, before becoming a director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics. He was most recently Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics, and then District Administrator for Operations for the Comsewogue school district in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., and is now a Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics, and Director of Facilities for an Eastern Long Island school district. Granger is the author of many writings and musing as yet unpublished, but hopefully soon to be shared with a waiting world. - http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/SavingGraceAtGuantanamoBay.html******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Montgomery J. Granger is a three-time mobilized U.S. Army Reserve Major (Ret.), who was called into his Reserve Center in Uniondale (Long Island), New York, on 9/11, in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, which crashed at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He answered his country's call to duty next in January 2002 for a mission to help run the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was called up again just six months after returning from duty at Gitmo, but this time remained stateside at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center at Fort Dix, New Jersey. After nearly six months at Fort Dix, MAJ Granger returned to civilian life for about a year when he was involuntarily transferred to another Reserve Army unit that was deploying to Iraq in the fall of 2004. Major Granger served 14 months of active duty on his third deployment and served in Baghdad, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, and Ashraf, Iraq, as Medical Service officer for military detention facility operations. He is married and is the father of five children, and lives on Long Island, New York. He is also the author of "Theodore," a personal narrative published in the 2006 Random House wartime anthology "Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families," where he wrote about his fear and anxiety over having left his family in 2002, and especially two-day-old Theodore, and what reaction there was upon his return. Operation Homecoming was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and edited by Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestselling book, War Letters. Granger was born in Illinois, raised and schooled in Rubidoux, California, and attended undergraduate school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. He earned a master's degree in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College-Columbia University, where he met his wife. He also attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned professional credits to obtain a New York State School District Administrators' license. He is an accomplished coach and teacher of health and physical education, having taught in Alabama, California, New York City, and Long Island, before becoming a director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics. He was most recently Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics, and then District Administrator for Operations for the Comsewogue school district in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., and is now a Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics, and Director of Facilities for an Eastern Long Island school district. Granger is the author of many writings and musing as yet unpublished, but hopefully soon to be shared with a waiting world. - http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/SavingGraceAtGuantanamoBay.html ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Montgomery J. Granger is a three-time mobilized U.S. Army Reserve Major (Ret.), who was called into his Reserve Center in Uniondale (Long Island), New York, on 9/11, in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93, which crashed at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He answered his country's call to duty next in January 2002 for a mission to help run the military detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was called up again just six months after returning from duty at Gitmo, but this time remained stateside at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center at Fort Dix, New Jersey. After nearly six months at Fort Dix, MAJ Granger returned to civilian life for about a year when he was involuntarily transferred to another Reserve Army unit that was deploying to Iraq in the fall of 2004. Major Granger served 14 months of active duty on his third deployment and served in Baghdad, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, and Ashraf, Iraq, as Medical Service officer for military detention facility operations. He is married and is the father of five children, and lives on Long Island, New York. He is also the author of "Theodore," a personal narrative published in the 2006 Random House wartime anthology "Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families," where he wrote about his fear and anxiety over having left his family in 2002, and especially two-day-old Theodore, and what reaction there was upon his return. Operation Homecoming was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and edited by Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestselling book, War Letters. Granger was born in Illinois, raised and schooled in Rubidoux, California, and attended undergraduate school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. He earned a master's degree in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College-Columbia University, where he met his wife. He also attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he earned professional credits to obtain a New York State School District Administrators' license. He is an accomplished coach and teacher of health and physical education, having taught in Alabama, California, New York City, and Long Island, before becoming a director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics. He was most recently Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics, and then District Administrator for Operations for the Comsewogue school district in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., and is now a Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics, and Director of Facilities for an Eastern Long Island school district. Granger is the author of many writings and musing as yet unpublished, but hopefully soon to be shared with a waiting world. - http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/SavingGraceAtGuantanamoBay.html ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org. David begins by losing his head over a story about Marie Antoinette’s mirror. It’s a mirror, mirror on a wall in England, but until recently no one knew its origins. David shares some details. Then, a teen in Britain has made a fascinating find on a British mountainside that impacted a family in Australia. Hear what he discovered. Next, there’s been another astounding discovery in England… a massive Anglo-Saxon grave site going back 4,000 years. Find out about the objects found there. Then, Smithsonian has shared a remarkable story about a female spy who started out cracking mobster codes in the 1930s, and eventually broke open a Nazi ring in South America a decade later. Catch the story of Elizabeth Smith Freedman. And finally, Megan Smolenyak has published some of her findings on the origins of new President Joe Biden. Are you related? Next, Fisher visits with Loretto Thompson. A few years back Loretto learned about a treasure trove of letters from her father to the family during his time serving in World War II. He died when Loretto was only four years old, and the letters have led her on a remarkable journey… even by genie standards! Then, Dr. Henry Louis Gates is back to talk about the next episode of Finding Your Roots on PBS. David returns for the final segment as the guys answer another question on Ask Us Anything. That’s all this week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History Show!

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This episode is the second in a three-part series based on an interview with professor Carlos Dews, founding director of the Carson McCullers Center and the world's leading scholar in Carson McCullers studies. Professor Dews, who edited the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, and both volumes of the Library of America's The Complete Works of Carson McCullers, is currently editing the selected letters of Carson McCullers. In Episode 3, Nick and Carlos discuss that project, including the discovery of Carson's love letters to Marty Mann. This week's readings are from the so-called "War Letters" exchanged between Carson and Reeves McCullers in 1944 and 1945. Suzie Parker Devoe reads Carson's letter to Reeves of 21 November 1944, and Nick Norwood reads the letter to Carson Reeves wrote the following day.

A detailed excavation of the handwritten word. Two actors and a director dive into analysis of the source material for the play, The War Letters by Charlotte Purser. Here they find questions, mystery, and discover a bit about history, both then and now.

It is early April 1944 and two newlyweds have just been separated. She drove off from his army base. He boarded a train to New York City. D-Day had not happened yet, but the Invasion was to happen any day now. Where each would go and what would ultimately happen was truly not written yet..  Welcome to Forever, the Podcast. A detailed excavation of the hand written word. Two actors and a director dive into analysis of the source material for the play, The War Letters by Charlotte Purser. Here they find questions, mystery, and discover a bit about history, both then and now.

Mildred and Red write to each other on D-Day, June 6th 1944. With special guest, Katherine Evans. Forever, the podcast. A detailed excavation of the written word. Two actors and a director dive into analysis of the source material for the play, The War Letters by Charlotte Purser. Here they find questions, mystery, and discover a bit about history, both then and now.

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Millions of Americans Lack Access to Clean Water and Indoor Plumbing (0:42)Guest: George McGraw, Chief Executive Officer, DigDeepYou don't think about it when you flush the toilet or turn on the sink, but access to clean, reliable running water and safe sanitation are a real privilege. And right now, in the America, more than two million people lack that privilege. A person's race is the strongest predictor of whether they'll have access to clean water and sanitation. (Originally aired November 20, 2019) The Man Collecting One Million War Letters (17:04)Guest: Andrew Carroll, Director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman UniversityHistorian Andrew Carroll is on a mission to collect a million letters from soldiers during wartime. He's already collected tens of thousands, and they span 250 years of American conflicts from the Revolutionary war to the present day. One of them was even written on Hitler's own stationary. (Originally aired November 20, 2019) This Content May Contain Outdated Cultural Depictions (32:14)Guest: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of VirginiaSome of the classic animated films of our parents' childhood –the ones they showed to you as kids with such nostalgia -are now available for endless streaming on the newly-launched Disney+. Peter Pan,” “Lady and the Tramp,” “Dumbo” and a number of other films now available on Disney+ come with a disclaimer that reads: “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.” Is that enough, though? Would it be better for Disney just to edit out the offensive stuff? Or keep them off Disney+ entirely? Disney's not the only studio in this boat. Lots of films and TV shows made in previous decades wouldn't fly today. (Originally aired November 20, 2019) What We Learned from the Crack Crisis in America (51:10)Guest: David Farber, Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of History, University of Kansas, Author of “Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed”America, as you know, is in the midst of a drug crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people have overdosed on opioids in the last decade. The companies that make prescription pain killers, the pharmacies that sell them and doctors that prescribe them are being prosecuted. Local governments are clamoring for cash to make treatment available to more people with opioid addiction. Before the opioid epidemic, there was the crack epidemic. But America responded very differently to that drug crisis. Historian David Farber says the comparison is worth looking into, for what it tells us about race, poverty and our “collective inability to treat each other with decency and mercy.” (Originally aired November 21, 2019) Teaching Diplomacy to Kids Through Model UN (1:26:29)Guest: Cory Leonard, Associate Director at the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYUModel United Nations is a program for kids to pretend they're a representative of a country and debate global issues. Simulating diplomacy like this started in the 1920s before the UN even existed. But what's the point of having students run around pretending to be the Peruvian or Russian delegate if none of it is real? (Originally aired November 21, 2019)

George McGraw from DigDeep on water inequality. Andrew Carroll, Center for American War Letters at Chapman University, on collecting one million war letters. Shilpa Davé, University of Virginia, on Disney plus. Author David Farber, University of Kansas, on book “Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed.” Cory Leonard from BYU on Model UN.

Millions of Americans Lack Access to Clean Water and Indoor Plumbing (0:34)Guest: George McGraw, Chief Executive Officer, DigDeepYou don't think about it when you flush the toilet or turn on the sink, but access to clean, reliable running water and safe sanitation are a real privilege. And right now, in the America, more than two million people lack that privilege. A person's race is the strongest predictor of whether they'll have access to clean water and sanitation. The Man Collecting One Million War Letters (16:56)Guest: Andrew Carroll, Director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman UniversityHistorian Andrew Carroll is on a mission to collect a million letters from soldiers during wartime. He's already collected tens of thousands, and they span 250 years of American conflicts from the Revolutionary war to the present day. One of them was even written on Hitler's own stationary. This Content May Contain Outdated Cultural Depictions (32:06)Guest: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of VirginiaSome of the classic animated films of our parents' childhood –the ones they showed to you as kids with such nostalgia -are now available for endless streaming on the newly-launched Disney+. Peter Pan,” “Lady and the Tramp,” “Dumbo” and a number of other films now available on Disney+ come with a disclaimer that reads: “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.” Is that enough, though? Would it be better for Disney just to edit out the offensive stuff? Or keep them off Disney+ entirely? Disney's not the only studio in this boat. Lots of films and TV shows made in previous decades wouldn't fly today. The Apple Seed (51:08)Guest: Sam Payne, Host of The Apple Seed, BYUradioSam Payne from The Apple Seed shares a story about Thanksgiving. Crimes Against Rohingya Muslims Under Investigation (1:01:03)Guest: Cresa Pugh, doctoral student in sociology, Harvard UniversityThe International Criminal Court has authorized an investigation into whether the treatment of Rohingya in Myanmar constitutes crimes against humanity. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group. Since 2012 more than a million of them have fled their homes. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya are now living in refugee camps just across the border in Bangladesh. Others are living in camps for internally-displaced people in Myanmar where they're under strict surveillance. Sports Wars: How Free Agency Changed the Business of Pro Sports (1:14:51)Guest: James W. Quinn, Sports Lawyer, Author of “Don't Be Afraid to Win: How Free Agency Chagne the Business of Pro Sports”Male professional athletes in America are making more money than ever. Forbes says the highest earners of 2019 are NFL quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers who both have salaries just north of $80-million. Next on the list are NBA stars Steph Curry, LeBron James and Kevin Durant who all have salaries in the $30-40 million range but make at least as much in endorsements. Fifty years ago, all five of those star athletes probably would have needed a side job to make ends meet during the off-season. What changed?

George McGraw from DigDeep on water inequality. Andrew Carroll, Center for American War Letters at Chapman University, on collecting one million war letters. Shilpa Davé, University of Virginia, on Disney plus. Sam Payne from the Apple Seed shares a story. Cresa Pugh, Harvard University, on crimes against Rohingya Muslims. Author James W.Quinn on book "Don't Be Afraid to Win: How Free Agency Changed the Business of Pro Sports."

Ken talks with Stephen Ray “The Papacy: What the Pope Does and Why it Matters” (Ignatius Press) and Patrick Kenny “To Raise the Fallen: A Selection of the War Letters, Prayers, and Spiritual Writings of Fr. Willie Doyle, S.J.” (Ignatius Press). Steve’s book is available at: https://www.ignatius.com/The-Papacy-P3050.aspx Patrick’s book is available at: https://www.ignatius.com/To-Raise-the-Fallen-P3056.aspx Follow Steve […]

Shanate Jones, a Freedom Writer and Tech Sergeant of the U.S. Air Force, shares her story about serving in the military and how she used writing to cope during combat. Then Erin presents her riveting conversation with author, historian, and world traveler Andrew Carroll. Andy admits he hated history as a kid, but the turning point in his life occurred when his family's home was burned to the ground along with all of their photos, letters, and heirlooms. This tragedy, together with a World War II letter written by his cousin, sparked a lifelong mission to find and preserve personal histories from veterans, active-duty troops, and their families. In this episode, Andy tells captivating stories from soldiers and civilians dating all the way back to the American Revolution. In his work and his service, Andy focuses on drawing out the humanity in history in hopes of inspiring people from all backgrounds to discover their family history and write their own stories for future generations. Links and Resources: Books by Andrew Carroll: https://amzn.to/2XvQczv Follow Andrew on Twitter: @AndyCarrollUSA Trailer for Andrew's Play, “If All the Sky Were Paper”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwaWHUdzLCI Chapman University's Center for American War Letters www.WarLetters.us Read Captain Zoltan Krompecher's complete letter to his daughters on the Freedom Writers Foundation Blog: https://bit.ly/2K8ujRh Read Anna Miller's full letter about her experience on 9/11 on the Freedom Writers Foundation Blog: https://bit.ly/2HL3G6H Bring a Freedom Writer to Your School or Organization: http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/index.php/programs/outreach Andrew Carroll's Bio: Andrew Carroll is an author, historian, and playwright, and the editor of several New York Times bestsellers, including War Letters and Behind the Lines. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War. Andrew also edited, on a pro bono basis, Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, and the book inspired the Emmy award-winning documentary “Operation Homecoming.” Both the book and the film have been used at military hospitals and medical centers to help servicemembers with post traumatic stress, and Andrew’s work has provided counseling for thousands of troops and veterans. Andrew is also the director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University (www.WarLetters.us). The Center’s mission is to honor and remember veterans, active-duty troops, and their families by preserving their wartime correspondences. Andrew has traveled to all 50 states and more than 40 countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, and he has collected, to date, more than 100,000 previously unpublished letters and emails sent during every conflict in U.S. history, from the American Revolution up through the present day. Andrew wrote a play based on these letters and his travels to find them called “If All the Sky Were Paper,” which has starred Oscar-winning and nominated actors including Annette Bening, Laura Dern, Common, Jason Hall, and Mary Steenburgen. Andrew lives in Washington, DC and Orange, CA.

Andrew Carroll is the editor of several New York Times bestsellers, and his most recent book is "MY FELLOW SOLDIERS: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War." Andrew is also the founding director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University. BeTheTalk is a 7 day a week podcast where Nathan Eckel chats with talkers from TEDx and other branded events. Learn the tips tools and techniques that can help you give the talk to change the world at www.BeTheTalk.com ! WATCH Andrew's TEDx Talk HERE Learn more about Andrew's Organization HERE.

Andrew Carroll is the editor of several New York Times bestsellers, and his most recent book is "MY FELLOW SOLDIERS: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War." Andrew is also the founding director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University. BeTheTalk is a 7 day a week podcast where Nathan Eckel chats with talkers from TEDx and other branded events. Learn the tips tools and techniques that can help you give the talk to change the world at www.BeTheTalk.com ! WATCH Andrew's TEDx Talk HERE Learn more about Andrew's Organization HERE.

Andrew Carroll is a NY Times bestselling editor of "War Letters"  he is interviewed about what the letters home from the war tell us about American soldiers.  His interview with host Jim Fausone spans the generations of American military men and women. 

Highlights Moving the goods - The railroads and the war effort |@ 01 :00 Lynn Heidelbaugh - The postal service in WW1 |@ 08:20 The “Hat in the ring Gang” - Centennial of the 94th Aero Squadron |@ 13:40 Mike Shuster - Dissent in the German forces |@ 15:15 Richard Rubin & Jonathan Bratten - Being German ain't easy in 1917 |@ 19:50 Speaking WW1 - This week’s word “Strafe” |@  29:30 John Motley - 100C/100M project in Fort Towsen, OK |@ 30:20 Andrew Carroll - Center for American War Letters |@ 36:45    And more…----more---- Opening Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration. Today is August 23rd, 2017 and our guests this week are: Lynn Heidelbaugh, Curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum Mike Shuster from the great war project blog, The Storyteller and the Historian, Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten    John Motley from the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Fort Towson, Oklahoma And Andrew Carroll, Founding Director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University 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. World War One THEN 100 Year Ago This Week [MUSIC TRANSITION] We’ve gone back in time 100 years to explore the war that changed the world! It is 1917 and America is preparing a war effort that is transforming her more quickly than any previous event in her short history. For example, 100 years later people will simply take for granted, the country’s ability to move huge volumes of goods, resources and people across the vast land. But there is no highway system in 1917… There are few canals… but there is a large and even transcontinental infrastructure - The railroads! So it is not surprising, that trains quickly becomes a key strategic element in the war effort, 100 years ago. Following are some the headlines and notes from the Official Bulletin - America’s War Gazette published daily by the Committee on Public Information, the US government propaganda ministry headed by George Creel. We’ll track the story about the railroads through its headlines and pages starting just a month after war is declared.   [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: May 15, 1917 Headline: BILL TO GIVE PRESIDENT POWER OVER FREIGHT SHIPMENTS INTRODUCED The story reads: "As war conditions develop It is certain there will be times when the shipment of arms and ammunition may be of prime importance ; at another time the movement of provisions may be more important; yet at another, the movement of coal and Iron ore may become the most Important of all.   Under these conditions It is thought essential that the President should have the power to determine what particular freight shall have priority and for how long this priority should continue.   Less than a month later --  the scope of the challenge is outlined in the Bulletin:   [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: June 5th, 1917 Headline: THE MOBILIZATION OF RAILROADS FOR THE NATION'S WAR NEEDS ARE DEFINED The story reads: Freight cars are lacking… There are 2,500,000 freight cars in the United States and their capacity is barely sufficient for current commercial needs. The railroads in the near future will use 120,000 cars to transport material for the construction of the ' new army ' training camps, and a continuous flow of cars to keep those camps in supplies. They estimate that It will take 200,000 cars to carry the material used for the construction of the Government merchant ships, whether of steel or of wood. They will require an enormous number of cars to move the steel for the ships under construction for the Navy, and no estimate whatever can be made of the number of cars which will be needed to carry the material used in the manufacture of munitions and supplies for the Army, and in moving them a second time from the point of manufacture to the shipping point.   [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: June 21th, 1917 Headline: MORE EXTENDED USE OF INTERIOR WATERWAYS OF COUNTRY URGED BY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE   TM: The “maxing out” of capacity is clearly being recognized by all concerned --- and everyone is looking for answers as this story illustrates:   “The president of one of our leading railways has recently said : " The railroads of the United States are carrying more freight than ever before in the history of the country, but when they have carried traffic up to 100 per cent of their capacity there still remains 15, 25, perhaps 30 per cent in traffic which it is impossible for them to carry at all." No one --- who knows the facts, will question that the railways of the country are overwhelmed by the present traffic. There is said to be a shortage of 150,000 cars. Radical measures are being taken In an effort to meet the situation. The railroads are Insufficient for the task laid upon them and the problem is likely to become more serious. It will not be long before large bodies of troops must be moved with their equipment in this country.   TM: Although Americans were used to traveling through the country by rail - A visit to aunt Tilly in not in the cards anytime soon,   [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: July 17, 1917 Headline: HUGE REDUCTION IN PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE The story reads: The railroads of the United States, as part of their effort, under the direction of the Railroads' War Board, report the elimination of passenger trains aggregating over 16,200,000 miles of train service per year. This is done by the railroads to save man power, fuel, and motive power, that they may be applied to the transportation of necessities. Every ton of coal, every locomotive, every mile of track space, every man whose duties are absorbed by an unnecessary passenger train --- can be put to effective use in freight service, and nothing is more necessary at the moment to insure the safety and prosperity of the country than that the railroads be able to handle the utmost possible amount of freight.   The elimination of passenger service already reported will make available over 1,120.000 tons of coal for other purposes. TM: 10 days later a positive public relations story is published in the bulletin about the railroad companies   [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: July 27, 1917 Headline: RAILROADS INCREASE NATION'S FOOD SUPPLY BY LEASING SURPLUS LANDS WHICH THEY OWN The story reads: To help increase the Nation's food supply by utilizing as much idle acreage as possible the railroads of the West and Middle West are leasing millions of acres of lands - which they own  - at nominal rental for grazing and agricultural purposes. In addition to leasing their land to farmers and cattlemen at a nominal rental, a number of the railroads are offering garden plots, rent free, to families along their right of way.   This leads to the big story this week one hundred years ago…   [SOUND EFFECT] Dateline: August 20th, 1917 Headline: PLANS FOR GREATEST TROOP MOVEMENT IN U. S. HISTORY ARE NOW BEING PERFECTED The American Railway Association Is Preparing Schedules To Insure Safe and Prompt Carrying of the Armies. The story reads: Altogether, 687,000 men will have in be transported to the various cantonments that the Government is building to house the new National Army. The movement will start September 5. Between that date and September 9 the railroads will complete the entrainment of 200,000 men, or approximately 30 per cent of the total number scheduled to be moved to the various training camps. The facts are that to move merely one field army of 80,000 men requires 6.229 cars made up into 366 trains, with as many locomotives and train crews. Meanwhile, in addition to moving the 687,000 recruits for the National Army, the railroads have been asked to supply transportation for the 350,000 members of the National Guard to their training camps.   Closing TM: It is easy to see how challenging and strategic this key piece of infrastructure is to the war effort - So….Finally, in December of this year , 1917,  the Interstate Commerce Commission recommends the total federal control of the railroad industry to ensure efficient operation. The takeover measures are to go beyond simply easing the congestion and expediting the flow of goods; they will have total control of all parties—management, labor, investors, and shipping— on behalf of this national interest. President Wilson issues an order for nationalization of the US railroad industry on December 26, 1917 [BANG SOUND EFFECT]   The US Postal Service in WW1 Interview with Lynn [SOUND EFFECT WOOSH] Now that the troops are shipping out - first to training camp and soon thereafter overseas, another key logistics elements has to be nailed into place - one that is essential the the mental and spiritual well being of our fighting forces - Mail service! With us today is Lynn Heidelbaugh (HEIDEL-BAW), Curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum who is going to talk to us about the mail service and how it adapted to the changing needs of a population at war.   Welcome, Lynn!   [exchange greetings] [Lynn, can you fill us in on how the postal service in america had to transform and adapt when war was declared? ] [You lost postal workers to the draft didn’t you?] [Lynn - later in the show we’ll hear from Andrew Carroll from the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University - he contributed to your Pershing  “My fellow Soldiers - Letters from WWI” exhibit at the museum. When did that open?] [Lynn - Museum exhibits are not really about artifacts and objects - they are about stories - as the curator for a postal museum exhibit about WW1 - is there anything that sticks out as a particularly memorable story.] [Did the postal service get Involved with mail censorship or was that strictly the war department?] [Thank you Lynn] That was  Lynn Heidelbaugh (HEIDEL-BAW), Curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. link:https://postalmuseum.si.edu/   War in the Sky [SOUND EFFECT] This week in our War in The Sky segment we are going to talk about the famous US 94th Aero Squadron- which is established at Kelly Field, Texas on August 20, 1917. The “Hat in the ring Gang” named for their squadron logo -  is one of the first American pursuit squadrons to reach the Western Front and see combat. Three notable airmen serve with the squadron, perhaps the most well known is Eddie Rickenbacker, who will be awarded almost every decoration attainable, including the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross. On a personal note, I have a silver cigarette case from my grandfather that is signed by a bunch of his flying buddies including Eddie Rickenbacker. I’ve always treasured that... So, another interesting member of the Hat in the Ring Gang is  Raoul Lufbery.. Who transferred over from the famous Lafayette Escadrille. Lufbery, a really colorful character, famously adopted a lion cub while with the Lafayette and named him Whiskey, later got Whiskey a lioness playmate called Soda. Now - besides being a little eccentric, he is, of course,  also a great aviator… Finally there is Douglas Campbell who will become the first AMERICAN  TRAINED pilot to be an air ace. We will follow more of the 94th Aero Squadron’s exploits over the coming months, a famous squadron that was born 100 years ago this week. There are several links in the podcast notes to learn more. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/94th_Aero_Squadron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/94th_Fighter_Squadron#World_War_I https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/94th-aero-squadron-photographs-sieurin-1917-1919 https://downunderaviationnews.wordpress.com/the-hat-in-the-ring-gang-the-combat-history-of-the-94th-aero-squadron-in-world-war-1/ www.ww1cc.org/warinthesky   [SOUND EFFECT] Great War Project Next we are joined by Mike shuster, former NPR correspondent and curator for the Great War Project blog. By now, we’ve heard about the French Mutinies of 1917, the mass desertion in the Russian army, and bewildered and beleaguered troops across the war fronts. But it wasn’t just the allies. Today Mike’s post looks at the war weariness in the German Military.   Welcome Mike!   Thank you Mike. That was Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog. LINK:http://greatwarproject.org/2017/08/20/insurrection-in-the-german-military/ The Great War Channel For videos about WW1, our friend at the Great War Channel on Youtube have been producing great videos about great war since 2014.. Here is Indy Nidel - the host of the Great War Channel. 3rd Great War Recording of Indy This week’s new episodes include: The Battle of Hill 70 - Mackensen Advances in Romania Trench Mortars, German double standards and Hughes Shovel And Romanian Guns of WW1   Follow the link in the podcast notes or search for “the great war” on youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar Storyteller and the Historian Next, it is time for the Storyteller and the Historian -  Today the intrepid duo are going to explore the challenges of being a German American during WW1.   [RUN OPENING] [RUN SEGMENT]   Thank you gentlemen! That was - the StoryTeller - Richard Rubin and The Historian - Jonathan Bratten   The Storyteller and the Historian is now a full hour long monthly podcast. Look for them on iTunes and libsyn or follow the link in the podcast notes.   Link: http://storytellerandhistorian.libsyn.com   World War One NOW [SOUND TRANSITION] We have moved forward in time to the present… Welcome to WW1 Centennial News NOW  - This part of the program is not about history but how the centennial of the War that changed the world is being commemorated today. Commission News This week in Commission News, We are announcing a new program from the National WW1 Museum and Memorial - called - Send A Deserving Teacher on an Adventure - You can nominate a teacher of your choice (which can include yourself) for a drawing to win a free trip to the National World War I Museum and Memorial. The drawing is random, but the platform being used to collect the entries allows users to enter more ballots by doing actions such as: sharing the contest on social media, visiting the education resource archive, and so on. And of course, you and your nominee will be signed up for semi-monthly Education Newsletter. The contest runs through Sept. 8 at theworldwar.org/contest There is a link in the podcast notes. Link: theworldwar.org/contest   Activities and Events [Sound Effect] At the Commission we created U.S. National WW1 Centennial Events Register where we are compiling and archiving WW1 Commemoration events from around the country- not just from major metros and museums but also local events from the heart of the country- showing how the WW1 Centennial Commemoration is playing out all over America.. You can access and contribute to the register at ww1cc.org/events. Click the big red button to put your ww1 commemoration event into the register or use the search box in the left column to see what is happening in your neck of the woods. link: http://ww1cc.org/events   Oil Paintings Our local event pick for this week comes from the Public Libraries of Maryland. A special WW1 Oil Paintings exhibit is currently on display at the Thurmont Regional Library and will be moving to the C. Burr Artz Public Library in Frederick, Maryland until end of September. The exhibit includes a set of five paintings of WW1 planes by Robert Horvath, a former Talbot County Free Library director. The paintings are on loan from the U.S. Air Force Museum in Washington, D.C. Margaret Carty, executive director of the Maryland Library Association, who helped put the exhibit together, noted: “When you look at the aviation then and the aviation now...for young people it must be almost mind-boggling to think that anyone dared to get into those,” In Oct the exhibit will go to Montgomery county at the Olney branch, followed by Talbot County in November. Follow links in the podcast notes to find out more.   Link:http://www.cecildaily.com/spotlight/article_32d0cfa7-44d7-56c6-8d66-46e1b3827c41.html http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/component/jevents/eventdetail/47120/ww1-oil-paintings-exhibition.html?Itemid=1090&filter_reset=1   http://www.fcpl.org/branches-hours/thurmont-regional-library http://www.fcpl.org/branches-hours/c-burr-artz-public-library http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/library http://www.tcfl.org   Boston General For our major metro event pick of the week,  we go to Boston Massachusetts where the Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation features: The Spirit of Devotion: Massachusetts General Hospital and the First World War There is  a short film about the hospital’s involvement in WWI and they will host several lectures. The hospital lobby exhibit will be changed every few months with new material. The organization operated a Base Hospital in Talence, France between 1917 and 1918, with many doctors, nurses and other personnel joining medical efforts in support of the Allied forces. Read more about the upcoming exhibits and lectures by following the links in the notes. link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/component/jevents/eventdetail/10429/the-spirit-of-devotion-massachusetts-general-hospital-and-the-first-world-war.html http://www.massgeneral.org/museum/exhibits/front-lines/ http://www.massgeneral.org/museum/news/?display=Events   [SOUND EFFECT] Speaking WW1 And for our newest feature “Speaking World War 1 - Where we  explore today’s words & phrases that are rooted in world war I  --- This week’s word is Strafe or Strafing… In German.. The word for “punishment” is “Strafe” - And that is exactly what german fighter planes did - as they swept down from the skies, flying low to the ground as they unloaded their machine guns into the soldier in the trenches. It was a punishment from the sky. This air to ground support maneuver soon become known as to “strafe” or strafing the troops - an anglicized version of the german word for punishment - Strafe -  this week’s word for - Speaking WW1 - see the translation from Google Translate in the podcast notes. Naya - da geb ich dir eine strafe! link: https://translate.google.com/#de/en/Strafe 100 Cities/100 Memorials [SOUND EFFECT] John Motley - Fort Towson, OK Every week we are profiling one of the many amazing projects submitted to our $200,000 matching grant giveaway to rescue ailing WW1 memorials. The program is called 100 Cities / 100 Memorials. Last week we profiled the Albert Harry Bode Gravesite in Jackson California. This week, we head to Fort Towson, Oklahoma to learn more about a very unique project there.   Joining us is John Motley, Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel and nephew of Mrs. Margie Motley who, at 95 years young, has commissioned a new WW1 Memorial for the town of Fort Towson, Oklahoma in memory of her father, Cecil Evan Hopson, and all the doughboy veterans of Fort Towson, XXX county and Oklahoma featuring a life-size World War I Doughboy statue.  Welcome, John! [exchange greetings] John, this started as a small and simple search for a figureen for a headstone,  but has become much much more. Would you share the story with us? John, when will the memorial be dedicated? John - On behalf of the World War One Centennial Commission, from all of us here at WW1 Centennial news - and I am sure on behalf of our listeners - Would you please extend our warmest thanks and congratulations to your aunt - Mrs. Margie Motley for her dedication in remembering our WW1 veterans’ service -  in the war that changed the world. Mrs. Motley. You are an amazing patriot and an amazing human being. We are all incredibly proud to have met you through your nephew and your work. Thank you! Thank you John! [exchange] That was John Motley for the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Fort Towson, Oklahoma. We will continue to profile the submitting teams and their unique and amazing projects on the show over the coming months. Learn more about the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials program at ww1cc.org/100memorials or follow the link in the podcast notes. Link: www.ww1cc.org/100memorials [SOUND EFFECT] Education Today in our Education section, we are going to continue with our theme on letters from the past - On this show, we’ve heard time and time again - about the powerful emotional impact and personal connection - experienced from reading the letters of the era.   This makes the archiving and sharing, of letters and journals from WW1 one of the most powerful commemorations there is. And it is also the focus of our next guest... Andrew Carroll is the Founding Director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University. [Welcome Andy!] [Exchange greetings] Andy - your focus is on letters from all wars - but from your WW1 collection - is there one letter or series that particularly stands out for you? [You’ve worked with Lynn Heidelbaugh from the smithsonian who was “on” earlier in the show - We have a lot of people and organizations from the centennial community that listen to this show  - How can  individuals and  organizations access your archive?] [Andy - a related question - how can that community of interest contribute to your work?] [Finally Andy - You have another commemoration project you mentioned to Katherine - a commemorative WW1 plaque in memory of Edward Stone -- can you tell us a little about that?] [Thank you for joining us] That was Andrew Carroll, the Founding Director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University. Follow the link in the podcast notes to connect to the Center. https://www.chapman.edu/research/institutes-and-centers/cawl/million-letters-campaign.aspx [SOUND EFFECT] Updates from the States Illinois Welcome to our Updates from the States - starting with some exciting news from our friends in the Prairie State!  Illinois - The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL will reopen to the public after a 1-year restoration. The reopening and ribbon cutting is on Saturday, August 26, at 11 am. The museum features new and updated exhibits and some new, cutting-edge storytelling techniques. The museum’s reopening coincides with the centennial inauguration of the famed military unit known as the “Big Red One.” It became the first division of the U.S. Army in June 1917, assembling to fight in France. Read more about the First Division and the museum's new features by following the link in the podcast notes   link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/3023-first-division-museum-grand-reopening-set-for-august-26.html [SOUND EFFECT] North Dakota Next, from the Roughrider State -- North Dakota,  important plans are underway to honor Native American World War One veterans. Even before most Native Americans had citizenship rights, thousands of men from tribes across the country showed their patriotism by volunteering for the military and fighting in World War I. Now, as the nation solemnly marks the Centennial, United Tribes Technical College - UTTC - at Bismarck is planning to honor Native American servicemen. The honoring will be held on Sept. 10 during the 2017 UTTC International Powwow.  We hope to have a guest on from the event in the next few weeks to tell us more - but for now - you can follow the link in the podcast notes. links:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/3026-plans-to-honor-wwi-native-veterans-in-north-dakota.html The Buzz - WW1 in Social Media Posts That brings us to the buzz - the centennial of WW1 this week in social media with Katherine Akey - Katherine - You have two photos to tell us about today - Take it away! The 94th Aero The Hat in the Ring Squadron strikes a pose link:https://www.facebook.com/ww1centennial/photos/a.290566277785344.1073741829.185589304949709/826621890846444/?type=3&theater   The Eclipses Not one but two eclipses swept over the earth during WW1 Link:https://www.facebook.com/ww1centennial/photos/a.290566277785344.1073741829.185589304949709/827080740800559/?type=3&theater   Thank you Katherine. Closing And that is WW1 Centennial News for this week. We want to thank you for joining us and our guests: Lynn Heidelbaugh, Curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum Mike Shuster updating us on conflict in the German Army The Storyteller and the Historian, Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten giving us a glimpse of life as a German American in World War One John Motley from the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Fort Towson, Oklahoma And Andrew Carroll, Founding Director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University Katherine Akey the Commission’s social media director and also the line producer for the show. And I am Theo Mayer - your host.   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; This program is a part of that…. 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 joining us. And don’t forget to share the stories you are hearing here with someone about the war that changed the world! [music]   Is that plane going to strafe us!?

Andrew Carroll talks about his book MY FELLOW SOLDIERS: GENERAL JOHN PERSHING AND THE AMERICANS WHO HELPED WIN THE GREAT WAR. He also talks about the War Letters project he heads. www.WarLetters.us

Letters from GIs are dramatized on Words at War.  Original Air Date: December 7, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.