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‘A Soldier’s Journey’: WWI memorial completed with 25-ton sculpture honoring the American doughboy
No American doughboys remain alive to recall wading through the trenches of the Great War more than a century ago, so a new sculpture in the nation’s capital seeks to speak for them. Officials recently [...]
First In Situ Photos of A Soldier’s Journey
In preparation for the 13 September opening presentation (First Illumination) of his remarkable centerpiece for America's National World War I Memorial, sculptor Sabin Howard is busy mounting and putting some finishing touches on his 58 [...]
WCU trumpeter to hit the big stage
Bradley Ulrich, Professor of Trumpet at Western Carolina University’s School of Music, will perform in Washington, D.C. during the illumination of the National World War I Memorial. He will be joined by members of the [...]
San Antonio teen trumpeter will perform at new WWI memorial in D.C.
Self-taught trumpeter Ricardo Lazaro has plenty of reasons to toot his own horn. From the top, the San Antonio teen has been attached to the instrument since he first picked it up around age 6. Most [...]
Letter: The Hello Girls need your help
In 1918, 223 bilingual female Signal Corps Telephone Operators deployed to France to serve as the first American women soldiers actively participating in combat operations during World War I. Known as the Hello Girls, they [...]
CBS: Sunday Morning This week on “Sunday Morning” (September 1)
HISTORY: Creating a memorial to the horrors of World War I Washington, D.C., is home to numerous monuments, with a conspicuous omission: there has been no national memorial to the soldiers who'd fought and [...]
Sonoma’s ‘Hello Girl’ finally gets her recognition
Ceremony at her grave site honors Juliette Courtial Smith’s service during World War I. “She can keep a secret.” With that headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Examiner on Sept. 27, 1919, [...]
Upstate volunteers work to preserve WWI history with memorial park
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - After three years of pushing for change, a group of Upstate volunteers is one step closer to creating a memorial park to honor the legacy of a lesser-known division [...]
Ken Beaton: ‘Number please’
What the heck is a “Hello Girl?” She was an educated woman, fluent in English and French who served her country as a telephone operator in war-torn France during World War I. The commanding officer [...]
