The Story Of A Rose To Bring Experience Of World War I Immigrant To Life In Song
Rehearsals are well underway for The Story of a Rose; A Musical Memoir of the Great War which the Doughboy Foundation will premier at the Kennedy Center on May 7th. Tony-nominated star and Friend of the Doughboy Foundation Melissa Errico, and music director Tedd Firth, are creating a superb benefit concert. The Foundation is planning future performances around the country.
Ms. Errico opens a door to the real-life lost world of her immigrant family during the experience of wartime during WWI. The music of the time connects her to that time and she ends knowing that we are all still shaped by things that happened long ago.
Tickets are now on sale at The Story of a Rose | Kennedy Center.
Indigenous WWI Veterans Get Long- Awaited Medal Of Honor Review
During the week of January 13-18, 2025, Daily Taps at the National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC was sounded in honor of WWI veteran 2LT Harold Allen Healy, 8th Machine Gun BN, 3d Division, AEF, posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and two Silver Stars, and namesake of Norton, MA American Legion post 222.
Headquarters, 3d Division, A.E.F., Citation Orders No. 22 (July 8, 1919)
By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Harold A. Healy, United States Army, is cited (Posthumously) by the Commanding General, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the World War I Victory Medals awarded him. While serving with the 8th Machine Gun Battalion, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, upon crossing the Marine in the attack on Le Charmel, France, Lieutenant Healy volunteered with another officer to bring in two wounded Frenchmen lying in the edge of the woods where enemy shells and machine gun fire were concentrated, successfully accomplishing his mission.. [A Distinguished Service Cross was awarded for this action.]
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The Daily Taps program of the Doughboy Foundation provides a unique opportunity to dedicate a livestreamed sounding of Taps in honor of a special person of your choice while supporting the important work of the Doughboy Foundation. Choose a day, or even establish this honor in perpetuity. Click here for more information on how to honor a loved veteran with the sounding of Taps.
After the United States entered the First World War, Congress passed the Naturalization Act of May 9, 1918, to expedite naturalization for alien members of the U.S. armed forces. Eventually, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, and marines took advantage of this opportunity to become U.S. citizens under this act. Among them was Francesco Capra, a young Sicilian immigrant who had arrived in the U.S. in 1903 at the age of 6. While his WWI military service was short, his contributions to his new nation thereafter were extraordinary. Read more about how legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, winner of three Academy Awards for Best Director, rejoined the military in World War II and received the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal for his service.
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Writing for The New Criterion, James Panero takes an in-depth look at the years-long efforts of sculptor Sabin Howard that produced the amazing sculptural centerpiece of the now-completed National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC. Calling on his decades-long familiarity with Howard's work and career, Panero charts the tortuous path that eventually led to the installation of "a sculptural statement on the First World War that manages to make its century-old realities newly real." Read the entire thoughtful article, and learn how Panero came to regard the work as an "unalloyed triumph."
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The USS Texas, a storied battleship that served in both World Wars, is undergoing a $35 million restoration at the Gulf Cooper Shipyard in Galveston, Texas. Known for its roles in the North Sea during WWI and at D-Day during WWII, the USS Texas is being outfitted with restored guns, a new camouflage paint scheme, and refurbished steel decks. While the restoration nears completion, debates continue over its permanent mooring location in Galveston. Learn more about how, despite logistical challenges, the Battleship Texas Foundation is determined to see the ship become a major tourist attraction, showcasing a vital piece of naval history.
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106 years ago, American troops were in a pitched battle for control of villages in northern Russia, fighting on a mission tied to a war that had ended a month prior. It was Dec. 30, 1918, and American soldiers from the Midwest were outside the village of Kadish, preparing to launch an offensive that would move from town to town, regaining territory ceded to Bolsheviks a month prior. It was part of one of the biggest fights between Americans and Russian communists, but it was years before the outbreak of the Cold War. Learn more about this mostly-forgotten expedition, and how “when the last battalion set sail from Archangel, not a soldier knew, no, not even vaguely, why he had fought or why he was going now, and why his comrades were left behind — so many of them beneath the wooden crosses.”
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World War I was The War That Changed The World, and its impact on the United States continues to be felt over a century later, as people across the nation learn more about and remember those who served in the Great War. Here's a collection of news items from the last month related to World War I and America. |
Best Movies about World War I
‘Hello Girl’ from MD wins gold medal for WWI service
America’s failed attempt to create WWI tank out of a tractor
A Hundred Years of Native American Veteran Care
Top 5 Powerhouse Aircraft Of World War I
Doughboy Foundation String Quartet performs in D.C.
Snow at National WWI Memorial doesn't stop Daily Taps
100 Cities, 100 Memorials Project aided Legion posts
Commemorating Christmas Truce
"It has been a true thrill to work with the Doughboy Foundation"
A man is only missing if he is forgotten.
Our Doughboy MIA this month is Private Eugene Sharpe, born on May 31st, 1896 in Winnfield, Tennessee. Before the war, he worked on the family farm and later as a brakeman for the Southern Railroad, operating the line from Oakdale, TN, to Chattanooga. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1916 and served along the Mexican Border with the Tennessee National Guard. After his discharge, Eugene later enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in Chattanooga on February 13th, 1918. He soon sailed to France and was assigned to the 17th Company, 5th Marines, 2nd Division.
On July 18, 1918, during the Aisne-Marne offensive, Private Sharpe was reportedly wounded near the village of Chaudun. Despite efforts by the Graves Registration Service and the Marine Corps to locate witnesses to his wounding or possible burial, no further information could be obtained. PVT Sharpe was reported missing, and his family clung to the hope that he would be found alive in a hospital or Prisoner of War camp.
That hope shattered in late August when his sister, Ms. Jennie Sharpe, received a letter from a French soldier.
Would you like to be involved with solving the case of PVT Eugene Sharpe, and all the other Americans still in MIA status from World War I? You can! Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to our non-profit organization today, and help us bring them home! Help us do the best job possible and give today, with our thanks. Remember: A man is only missing if he is forgotten.
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