Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love /
you gave your world for
—
War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore.
-Carol Ann Duffy,
“The Wound in Time”
via @PoetryBookSoc #WWI100
#everynightapoem
This ink drawing, entitled "A Rainy Day at Caserne Radet / (They say the first ten years of the hardest" provides a wonderful "map" of #WWI in France from the point of view of one #USArmy soldier stationed at an artillery railhead. #ArmisticeDay100 #WWI100 #VeteransDay
There was also the untold story of 140,000 Chinese laborers in #WWI: doing perilous, backbreaking non-combatant work on the frontlines in Britian, France, Russia. Digging trenches, defusing bombs, cutting barbed wire, working in factories. Many did not return. #Armistice #WWI100
"The World Will Be Made Safe For Democracy"
"為世界造和平“ Creating Peace for the World
”世界大同“ Great Global Unity
are some of the signs held aloft in November 1918 in Beijing.
#WorldWar1 #WWI100 #Armistice
The #WorldWar1 Armistice signing was enthusiastically celebrated in China, too - with street rallies, a military parade, and even a new commemorative gate. It might have been the "European War" 歐戰, but for many Chinese it held promise of redress for colonial invasion.
#WWI100
My grandfather fought in #WWI. Luckily he came home. Luckily again, he came home to a nation that recognized his service by granting him citizenship.
#VeteransDay #VeteransDay2018 #WWI100 #WorldWarI #GreatWar100 #USArmy #Armistice100 #ImmigrantStories #ImmigrantsBuiltAmerica
In case you couldn't tell from my feed, the Army is doing #WWI commemorations in France all through the spring, summer, & fall of 2018. You can follow along with @USArmyCMH & #WWI100
This week is the 1st, 2d, & 3d Division's commemorative events.
For the @2INFDIV, Belleau Wood and Vaux marked watershed moments in how it would fight in #WW1. This is the story of the Army's role in that battle.
#WWI100 #2ID
When it's #InternationalCatDay but you're working on a #WWI exhibition @MSUMuseum. #poster #art #ww1 #wwi100
#WorldChocolateDay American Chocolate Fund shipped 1000 lbs. of chocolate to AEF in France per week in 1918. Poster @MSUMuseum #WWI #WWI100
