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Connecticut World War I Soldier Awarded Purple Heart
GUILFORD, Conn. – A Connecticut National Guard Soldier assigned to Company M, 102nd Infantry Regiment, received the Purple Heart May 24, more than 100 years after he died during World War I. U.S. Army Sgt. [...]
The Pedersen Device: WWI Doughboy’s Secret Weapon
The Pedersen Device replaced the bolt of the M1903 rifle, turning it into a semiauto rifle with a 40-round magazine. Marching fire, also known as walking fire, is a military tactic—a form of suppressive fire [...]
Reflections on a Ceremony for a WWI Hello Girl, 79 years in the making
Now that the long-anticipated ceremony for Marie Edmee LeRoux is over, and I have had time to draw a breath, I wanted to thank everyone concerned with the event, and share some thoughts I had [...]
Albert Grass: WWI Lakota Code Talker gets bridge named in his Honor
My name is Timothy Hunts-in-Winter, an enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who resides in Arizona. I’m just a guy who began researching my family's WWI soldiers and my tribemates’ soldiers almost 3 [...]
Philly sculptor creates bronze for National World War I Memorial
In just a few months, “A Soldier’s Journey,” the bronze sculpture at the National World War I Memorial, will be unveiled just outside the White House. NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante introduces us to the Philadelphia-based artist [...]
NCA’s Cemetery Restoration Project thrives
Since 2020, the National Cemetery Administration’s (NCA) Cemetery Restoration Project has formed partnerships that aim to educate communities about private cemetery owners and the caretakers who honor and memorialize Veterans buried without headstones. The restoration project also [...]
World War I Memorial Will Unveil A New Feature in Fall 2024
United States Army veteran John “Jack” Monahan, who also serves as a World War One Centennial Commission representative, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast this Memorial Day to discuss the WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C. He also discussed [...]
Playing taps is a solemn duty. He wanted to do it right.
Chris Gekker has played the trumpet -- and taps -- for decades. But it carries special resonance on Memorial Day. Chris Gekker stepped up to the flag flying at half-staff, trumpet tucked against a borrowed [...]
The Boys of Yarmouth In World War I
In June, 1917, Albert Chase of West Yarmouth left home for the bloody battlefields of France. Chase was one of 35 young men from Old Mattacheese who volunteered in World War One, and miraculously, all [...]
