WW1 Centennial News

WW1 Centennial News for Wednesday March 1, 2017, at 12pm EDT

Highlights

1.  1917 News - Supreme Court Rules Germany Cannot Keep Prize Ships in US 

2. Guest - Mike Shuster - America, Mexico, Germany, Turkey & Russia all in the news THEN and NOW

3. Commission - American Association for State and Local History joins WW1 Poppy Program

4. Commission - New England WW1 Centennial Region launched

5. Article - WWrite Blog -Tracy Crow links her own experience as a female Marine to the extraordinary yet forgotten history of Lela Leibrand

6. Social Media - Focus on Women's Month with great posts on women and WW1

7. Much more...

Highlights

• Guest - Mike Shuster - President Wilson’s response to Germany’s U-Boat campaign
  
  
• Announcement - Commissioner John “Jack”  D. Monahan sworn in
  
  
• Guest - Philip Sneed, chair of the Colorado WW1 Centennial steering committee
  
  
• Post - 100C/100M WW1 memorial restoration project on Governors Island in New York
  
  
• Article - Commissioner Monique Seefried on the April 6th significance
  
  
• Article - Robert Laplander 3rd edition of book “Finding the Lost Battalion” and “Doughboy MIA” site
  
  

Highlights

• WW1 Poppy Program web site goes live
  
  
• Colorado web site goes Live
  
  
• Mathew Naylor President/CEO of WW1 Museum in KC on April 6 event
  
  
• Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun - African-American heroes are a part of a vanishing World War I legacy
  
  
• American Legion Post 196 in Brownwood, Texas submission to 100C/100M program
  
  
• Feb. 2017 Education Newsletter comes out.

Highlights

• US World War One Centennial Commission Chairman - Robert Dalessandro "Leading up to April 6"
  
  
• Chag Lowry - Native Americans in WW1 from a graphic novelist perspective
  
  
• "Stories of Service" and "Family Ties" introduced by Chris Christopher
  
  
• Pritzker Military Museum and Library: Now in progress "Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing"
  
  
• American Legion Post 43 - Hollywood gets busy!