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Showing posts with label History 1914 World War 1. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 06, 2018

Speaking at today’s ceremonies rededicating the Westminster Longwell Armory


Speaking at today's ceremonies were Alex Whitney Sr., Western Md. District Commander American Legion; Carroll County Delegates Haven Shoemaker and Susan Krebs; Dep. Sec. Md. Veterans Administration; Mark Bailey, General, UA Army Retired, Westminster Common Councilmember Dr. Mona Becker; and keynote speaker CSM Thomas Beyard, Md. National Guard.

Today, Oct. 6, 2018 the Longwell Avenue Armory was rededicated and the 100 year anniversary of the Armistice commemorated in the memory of Private Jerome L. Day.

A wreath is laid at a tree planted in memory of Private Jerome L. Day


A wreath is laid at a tree planted in memory of Private Jerome L. Day, who served in the H Company of the 29th Division US Army, deployed from this location during WWI. 

He was killed in action on 10/08/18 in the First Battle of Malbrouck Hill (France), the first casualty from Carroll County in WWI.

Today, Oct. 6, 2018 the Longwell Avenue Armory was rededicated and the 100 year anniversary of the Armistice commemorated in the memory of Private Jerome L. Day. Private Day, who served in the H Company of the 29th Division US Army, deployed from this location during WWI.


Private Jerome L. Day served in the H Company of the 29th Division US Army

Private Jerome L. Day served in the H Company of the 29th Division US Army, deployed from this location during WWI. He was killed in action on 10/08/18 in the First Battle of Malbrouck Hill (France), the first casualty from Carroll County in WWI.

Today, Oct. 6, 2018 the Longwell Avenue Armory was rededicated and the 100 year anniversary of the Armistice commemorated in the memory of Private Jerome L. Day.

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Suit seeks removal of Peace Cross at Bladensburg World War 1 Peace Memorial


I’m not making this up…

According to an article in the Washington Post on March 1, 2014 by wirter Michael E. Ruane, “The American Humanist Association filed a lawsuit last week in federal court in Maryland calling for the removal of Bladensburg’s 40-foot Memorial Peace Cross, which honors men from Prince George’s County who died during World War I.

“The association and three individual plaintiffs contend that the cross, which is on state property, violates the constitutional principle of separation of church and state. The cross was dedicated in 1925.

“The lawsuit states that the humanist association is an organization that advocates progressive values and equality for humanists, atheists, and freethinkers. One of the individual plaintiffs, Steven Lowe of Washington, contends that the cross “associates a Christian religious symbol with the state and gives the impression that the state supports and approves of Christianity, as opposed to other religions,” the suit says.”


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Friday, February 14, 2014

Questions of Culpability in WWI Still Divide German Historians - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Questions of Culpability in WWI Still Divide German Historians - SPIEGEL ONLINE

"This year marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I and the 75th of the start of World War II. Questions over the degree of German guilt remain contentious among historians, who have been fighting over the issue for years.

Read more: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/questions-of-culpability-in-wwi-still-divide-german-historians-a-953173.html#ref=nl-international

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This year will be a historic one, marking three important anniversaries: the 100th anniversary of the eruption of World War I, the 75th anniversary of the start of World War II and the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The first two dates have been the source of heated debates among German intellectuals. The Fischer controversy in the early 1960s had to do with assigning blame for the eruption of World War I, while the dispute between historians in the mid-1980s revolved around culpability for the Holocaust. Both debates were informed by the positions in what was then a divided nation, including views on German unification.

History is not just history, but also a part of the present. This is especially true of Germany. The overwhelming history of the 20th century engulfed the country and shaped the consciousness of politically active citizens.

Both debates ended in victory for those who advocated Germany accepting the greatest possible culpability and therefore sought to exclude the possibility of German reunification, fearing that a unified Germany could lead to fatal consequences, perhaps even a third world war. As a result, German consciousness was strongly influenced by this acceptance of guilt for decades to come.

A New Identity for Germans?

In the meantime, new information has come to light on the issues in both debates, which tends to support the losing side. Could this lead to a new national identity for Germans?
The importance of this question underscores the need to revisit the Fischer controversy and the dispute among historians in this historic year. It also focuses our attention, once again, on a controversial concept of the day: revisionism. It was once anathema to one side of the debate, and subsequently to the other. But it's a necessary debate.


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Monday, March 14, 2011

Kevin Dayhoff – The Tentacle: A tribute to Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I

A tribute to Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, from nearby Jefferson County, W. Va., died Sunday. He was 110 years old. http://tinyurl.com/4qhpqph


The Tentacle March 2, 2011

The Humble Patriot

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, from nearby Jefferson County, W. Va., died Sunday. He was 110 years old.

I first noticed that Mr. Buckles had passed away in an Hagerstown Herald-Mail article, written by Dave McMillion, who reported that Mr. Buckles “lived with his daughter, Susannah Buckles Flanagan, at Gap View, the family farm off old West Virginia 9, has been the subject of wide media and congressional attention in recent years.”    http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4259 


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2Mar2011 tribute Frank Woodruff Buckles last surviving US WWI vet from nearby Jefferson Co WV http://tinyurl.com/4qhpqph

20110314 sdosm A tribute to Frank Woodruff Buckles

More material – some of which ended up on the cutting room floor to get the piece to make word limit:

Almost four months after newspapers in Europe were reporting that World War I officially ended on October 3 – 2010 that is; Frank W. Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, from nearby Jefferson County, W. Va., died Sunday.

I first noticed that Mr. Buckles had died in Hagerstown Herald-Mail article, written by Dave McMillion.  For many, World War I is the stuff of ‘ancient’ history.  My grandfather served in World War I as a ferrier and he passed away almost 50 years ago.  So as one may imagine, both news items really captured my curiosity.

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A November 11, 2005 CNN article went on to observe, “More than 10 million troops died before the war ended with Germany's surrender.  Of the U.S. troops, more than 116,000 died and more than 200,000 were wounded.

“Long-lived veterans are common among America's warriors. The last veteran to fight in the American Revolution died at age 109 in 1869, according to Defense Department statistics.

“Other wars and the ages of their last veterans the year they died: the War of 1812, 105, 1905; the Indian Wars, 101, 1973; the Mexican War, 98, 1929; the Civil War, 112, 1958; and the Spanish-American War, 106, 1992.

Until 1953, we celebrated the Veterans Day as Armistice Day and its beginnings may be found in what we had previously understood as a commemoration of the end of World War I – on November 11, 1918.

Nevertheless, on October 1, 2010, Der Speigel, a weekly German magazine published in Hamburg, announced: “Germany will make its last reparations payment for World War I on Oct. 3, settling its outstanding debt from the 1919 Versailles Treaty and quietly closing the final chapter of the conflict that shaped the 20th century.

“Oct. 3, the 20th anniversary of German unification, will also mark the completion of the final chapter of World War I with the end of reparations payments 92 years after the country's defeat...”

The Daily Telegraph, a newspaper published in London, England, went one-step further on September 28, with a headline that declared: “First World War officially ends” – “The First World War will officially end on Sunday, 92 years after the guns fell silent, when Germany pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies…”

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For many, World War I is the stuff of ‘ancient’ history.  Perhaps what is fascinating about Mr. Buckles is that he was living link to a bygone era that most people only know about by reading history books. 

Although the Spanish-American War is considered by many to be the first “media war,” and was meticulously covered, primarily in print, by American newspapers; World War I is but a remote footnote in history for most Americans.  One may argue that it was no more visually documented – in pictures – that perhaps the American Civil War or the Spanish American War.

It's a war that's out of mind,” says Sean Flynn, who teaches World War I history at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, South Dakota, according to the CNN article.  “The U.S. entered it late and we have no real connection to it.”

Professor Flynn further explains, “Unlike the wars that followed, World War I doesn't have the visual record so important to becoming part of American consciousness…”

Many agree with Professor Flynn who was credited in the article with observing that the impact of World War “can be linked to many problems facing the world today, including conflict in the Balkans and the rise of Arab nationalism that occurred after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.”

Indeed, for a deeper understanding of the current turmoil sweeping across the Middle East in recent weeks, one must understand the history of World War I.

For those who are only vaguely familiar with World War I, the CNN article sums it up succinctly, “World War I, fueled by intense nationalism and conflicting economic and colonial interests, began in the Balkans in 1914 and quickly spread across Europe because of military alliances.  The major allied powers were Great Britain, France and Russia, and they were opposed by Germany, Austria-Hungary and a few others.”

In many ways, we are still reeling from the consequences of World War 1 and the horrifically ill conceived 1919 Versailles Treaty. 

For social and economic historians, 1918 and the end of World War 1 - and the rise of Arab nationalism that occurred after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire - is the intellectual catalyst for revisiting a matrix of complicated social, political and economic events, of which we are still trying to figure out and negotiate the ramifications.

World War 1 marked the disintegration of the Napoleonic era of world economic and political order manifested by the doomed German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires.  It was the end of three centuries of European world domination.  Europe never recovered.  World War II, twenty years later was the final nail in the coffin.

It was only a miracle that the war did not start with the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, the Spanish American war of 1898 or the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

Economic-historians understand that World War 1 - the “Great War,” a designation previously held-out for the Napoleonic Wars of the early 1800s, was actually the result of almost two decades of “economic warfare” between Europe’s ailing great empires in various stages of economic deterioration and collapse.

The localized conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, which eventually sparked the war, was the straw that broke the camel’s back as the empires of Europe sought a military solution to their economic woes.  The result, as you could only imagine, was the complete opposite as the gross national product of the warring European protagonists shrank precipitously.

Austria-Hungary did not react militarily for almost a month to the events of June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, when Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.  Only after Austria-Hungary had been assured of financial support from Germany did it react.

The world is still reeling from the adjustments caused by the destruction of these empires; especially in the Middle East as artificial national boundaries were formed for many of the nations that to this day cannot get along.  For example, to this day, Syria still does not recognize Lebanon as a separate country, but a territory of Syria in rebellion.

A point not missed by many historians.  Der Speigel quoted Professor Gerd Krumeich, a German historian who has specialized in World War I: “It's a historical curiosity that the Versailles Treaty should continue to have a financial impact to this day.  Krumeich went on to say Hitler's rise to power had its roots in Germany's deep sense of injustice at the 1919 treaty that gave Germany sole responsibility for the war and forced it to make crippling payments…

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Jennifer Rosenberg: World War I Memorial on National Mall Getting Renovated

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World War I Memorial on National Mall Getting Renovated

Thursday October 28, 2010
After 40 years of near neglect, the World War I Memorial on the National Mall is finally getting renovated. Although they are already clearing away overgrown bushes and such, the official groundbreaking for the renovations is planned for November 11, 2010, Veterans Day. For the full story of the renovations and why there is time pressure to complete them, see this CNN article.

Renovations begin on neglected World War I memorial on National Mall


By Paul Courson, CNN
October 12, 2010 -- Updated 1215 GMT (2015 HKT)
Workers have been clearing away overgrown brush and removing trees obscuring the World War I Memorial on the National Mall.


Workers have been clearing away overgrown brush and removing trees obscuring the World War I Memorial on the National Mall.  http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/10/11/wwi.memorial.renovations/index.html?hpt=T2
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Renovation of the D.C. World War I Memorial is being done with stimulus money
  • The last remaining U.S. soldier from the war has pushed for the renovation
  • An effort to make it an official national monument has stalled
Washington (CNN) -- After nearly 40 years without any major upkeep, the World War I Memorial on the National Mall is finally getting some attention, with renovations financed by federal economic stimulus money.
It has become a race to complete the project because of the failing health of Frank Buckles, the 109-year-old former U.S. Army corporal who is the last surviving American veteran of World War I...  http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/10/11/wwi.memorial.renovations/index.html?hpt=T2



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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Marine Missing in Action From World War I Identified

Marine Missing in Action From World War I Identified

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Cold War Veterans Blog

http://cold-war-veterans-blog.blogspot.com/2010/06/marine-missing-in-action-from-world-war.html

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War I, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

U.S. Marine First Sergeant George H. Humphrey of Utica, N.Y., will be buried on Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery. On Sept. 15, 1918, Humphrey participated in the first U.S.-led offensive of the war under the command of Gen. John J. Pershing. The battle with the Germans became known as the St. Mihiel Offensive. There were 7,000 Allied losses during this offensive and it was the first use of the American use of the term "D-Day" and the first use of tanks by American units.

Humphrey, a member of the U.S. 6th Marine Regiment, attached to the Army's 2nd Infantry Division, was killed in action during the battle and his remains were buried by fellow Marines the next day.

Read the rest here: http://cold-war-veterans-blog.blogspot.com/2010/06/marine-missing-in-action-from-world-war.html

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