Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> <br> 1917 - It turned into the world’s largest aerospace company, Boeing @ 6:57<br> <br> <br> <br> Events - Colleges & Universities commemorate @ 9:15<br> <br> <br> <br> Events - Virginia International Tattoo @ 10:15<br> <br> <br> <br> Interview - Randal Dietrich WWI Specialist from the Minnesota Historical Society @ 11:00<br> <br> <br> <br> International - Anzac Day, what is it and what does it commemorate @ 16:30<br> <br> <br> <br> WWrite Blog - Ernest Luke McClees on WWI-era propaganda @ 18:30<br> <br> <br> <br> The Buzz - WW1 explained as a bar fight - social media meme @ 19:45<br> <br> <br> World War One Centennial News: <br> April 26, 2017<br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War One Centennial News. It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Today is April 26th, 2017 and I’m Theo Mayer - Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host today.<br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> America has declared war and we now face the reality - that we actually doesn't have an army. It’s true.<br> It’s 1917, the US federal army is just barely over 120,000 men. In fact, the combined STATE militias totally outnumber the federal military with over 180,000 men. <br> Remember - this is only 1 generation after the civil war - - America is a UNION of separate states - the UNITED STATES of AMERICA - and the power of the Federal Government is relatively weak.<br> Our military thinkers estimate that we need a national army of at least a million soldiers - <br> President Wilson thinks that he can do it with volunteers - but… six weeks after the declaration of war… it is going to turn out that we only have 73,000 new volunteers. This is not gonna work.<br> So 100 years ago this week, President Wilson grabs his newspaper buddy - George Creel - Remember him from last week - our official war propagandist - and they head over to congress to let them know we are going to need a draft… <br> So here comes the selective service act of 1917… and Wilson will get it… in less than a month - stand by!<br> And our final US domestic note for this week 100 years ago may be just a little less dramatic for the average joe - but it is duly noted that the prestigious New York Yacht Club drops Kaiser Wilhelm and his brother Prince Heinrich of Prussia as members. YOU’RE OUTA HERE…. <br> Link: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheGreatWar191418/posts/1030785807053670:0">https://www.facebook.com/TheGreatWar191418/posts/1030785807053670:0</a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1134509/world-war-i-building-the-american-military/">https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1134509/world-war-i-building-the-american-military/</a><br> Great War Project<br> Joining us to tell us what is happening on the fighting fronts rather than here in the US is former NPR correspondent Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog. <br> Mike -- It’s not going well for the Allies. <br> France, in particular is pushing into a new offensive - led by French General Robert Nivelle. He comes up way short on gain --- and way long on losses at a disastrous level. He loses 700% more men than anticipated.. He faces mutiny.. While his british allies hesitate to jump into this horrific meat grinder - and they - the brits - are getting nowhere in Gaza in the middle east.<br> Tell us about it Mike.<br> LINK:<br> <a href="http://greatwarproject.org/2017/04/21/for-the-allies-a-bloody-spring/">http://greatwarproject.org/2017/04/21/for-the-allies-a-bloody-spring/</a><br> That’s Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog.<br> <br> <br> War in the Sky <br> That’s
