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Finding the Hello Girls: A Journey of Discovery and Connections
Finding (Auntie) Nemo The seeds that led to my Hello Girls journey were first planted in the fall of 2011. As my son was leaving for college, he suggested in a humorous manner that [...]
Not a Museum, but a Mirror: How one book, one library event and one basketball game revealed the Hello Girls’ living legacy
Like many of you, I grew up with family stories about my grandmother, Marie Edmée LeRoux, who served in World War I. I knew she had gone to France. I knew she had done something [...]
U.S. Marine Corps Quote of the Day by Lewis “Chesty” Puller: ‘Pain is weakness leaving the body’
“Pain is weakness leaving the body.” – Lewis “Chesty” Puller Lewis “Chesty” Puller was one of the most decorated Marines in all of American history. Having enlisted right at the end of the First World War, Puller [...]
What The Great War Still Teaches: WWI History and the Making of Future Officers
Standing Where Others Fell In the summer of 2025, Cadet Amani Haskins and a group of fellow West Point cadets stood at a monument in the French countryside – the sister monument of one [...]
A Primer on Iran’s (Persia’s) Rather Unpleasant World War I Experience
Persia (now Iran) is little known as a theatre of the First World War, but events there influenced global politics in the years following the war. Although Persia declared its neutrality in 1914, it [...]
This WWI soldier saved two men from a burning tank with his bare hands
When the American Expeditionary Forces joined the Allied armies on the Western Front in World War I, there was one condition upon which their commander, Gen. John Pershing, insisted. He wanted the AEF to [...]
World War I showed hemispheric insecurity could constrain American global power
Mind the GAPP: Strategic History and the Case for US Army Western Hemisphere Command In May 2025 I was assigned to the core team that planned the consolidation of three Army commands—Army North, Army [...]
2026 Update on Wreaths Across America at historic Fort Lincoln Cemetery in Brentwood, MD
We endured the cold, snowy, gray days of winter and the blustery, unpredictable weather of March, and then suddenly, Spring has sprung! Time flies, which is exactly why I say it's never too early [...]
The Hero of Kenosha – The Story of Nicholas A. Schulz, the First Kenoshan to Receive the Croix de Guerre in WWI
"Kenosha is proud of her first Croix de Guerre. She is prouder of the young hero whose brave deeds were worthy of such recognition. She had something more to add to her glories and [...]
