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A Promising Young Man: The Life and Times of a Casualty in World War One
Introduction In 1942 when I was eight years old, I accompanied my paternal grandmother, father, mother and brother in seeing the acclaimed and Academy Award movie Sergeant York in an Orangeburg, South Carolina theater. The [...]
Switchboard Soldiers: one of the great untold stories of World War I
Switchboard Soldiers (better known as the "Hello Girls") were the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as [...]
Finding Pvt. Henry V. Traynham
Pvt. Henry V. TraynhamGrowing up I was always fascinated with military history. I still am. I recall as a small child meeting my great grandfather Jeffrey Traynham, who served in the Navy during World War [...]
The Great War in Color: Apocalypse World War I
Apocalypse World War I, airing now on NatGeo, takes its viewers into a fascinating and uncharted look at the events of World War I. Producers used over 500 hours of archival footage for compelling story-telling [...]
The 369th Experience plays at the Kennedy Center in D.C.
The 369th Experience: Continuing the Legacy is a historic series of global music programs designed to acknowledge, educate, and preserve the legacy of The 369th U.S. Infantry regiment band and soldiers. The 369th Experience [...]
Harold A. Furlong: Michigan’s Only Native Son to Receive the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War I
Harold Furlong was born in Pontiac, Michigan Aug. 1, 1895 where he was raised and graduated from Pontiac High School. He interrupted his college education at Michigan Agricultural College (later became Michigan State University) when [...]
The writing of “On Assignment -The Great War”
Writing On Assignment: The Great War started with the Internet. I had just finished writing a self-help consumer book The California Lemon Law – When Your New Vehicle Goes Sour and decided to look-up some grade-school [...]
Efforts Renewed for Congressional Gold Medal to Honor World War I ‘Hello Girls’
A proposed Congressional Gold Medal to honor the “Hello Girls,” the pioneering World War I Army Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit, is receiving renewed bipartisan attention in the House and Senate. The medal push [...]
The Doughboy Foundation partners with “Google Arts & Culture”
Google Arts & Culture is a non-commercial initiative from Google that puts the treasures, stories and knowledge of over 2,000 cultural institutions from 80 countries at everyone’s fingertips and the Doughboy Foundation is honored to [...]
