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November 11, 1918 ... Armistice Day

“The Living Legacy of the First World War”: Carnegie Council Marks the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day

Burgess COMMENTARY
I was born in the UK in January 1940. 100 years after the end of the First World War I have several memories from my early years. (1) my Uncle Cyril, my father's older brother was killed by gas at Ypres; (2) during the Second World War we lived in the outskirts of London, and every member of the family had gas masks in preparation for a possible gas attack from the air. This included myself, a aby, toddler then young child. I remember being taught how to put the gas mask on in the event of an attack. It was smaller than adult gas mask. reddist runner rather than black, and with a sort of flapper as the nose, which caused me some amusement around a very serious matter. I also remember the role of radio and misinformation from a very young age, with Lord HawHaw beaming radio into the UK on behalf of the Third Reich. I don't remember directly anything of the First World War, but I remember my parents reliving various aspects of the First World War as the Second World War was raging. I remember being toled that every family in the UK had lost a family member in the First World War, and I believe my parent's generation were fearful that the same would happen in the Second World War. I am just a bit older than the Trump generation, and just old enough to remember things like the V1 and the V2 rockets coming in to bomb London ... and the massive mobilization of military hardware hidden under trees everywhere in the home counties (that is the counties around London) and all over Southern England in preparation for D-Day. I remember the warnings that were circulating about keeping quiet about seeing all of this ... the public story was that the D-Day attack was going to come from the East Coast of the UK and not the South Coast.
Peter Burgess

Carnegie Council Marks the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day Inbox x Carnegie Council info@cceia.org via mail208.sea71.mcsv.net 9:04 AM (5 minutes ago) to me View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward Carnegie Council logo “The Living Legacy of the First World War”: Carnegie Council Marks the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day Photo via PixabayNovember 9, 2018 Sunday, November 11, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I. With the passing of the last veterans of the Great War, active public remembrance is essential. Carnegie Council’s The Living Legacy of the First World War project joins other centennial initiatives that help rising generations to understand the weight and gravity of this moment in global history. Launched in the summer of 2017, the goal of “The Living Legacy” project is to publish original research on the war, its long-term impacts on societies around the world, particularly the United States, and its lasting imprint on the present. This fellowship program is led by Senior Fellow Col. Reed Bonadonna (ret.). Nine fellows were selected: see below. The project was made possible by a grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. In September 2018, Bonadonna and four of the fellows attended the Carnegie Peacebuilding Conversations, a three-day program at the Peace Palace in The Hague, presented by Carnegie institutions worldwide and other partners. They were the panelists for a session titled “Education for Peace: The Living Legacy of WWI.' Access the transcript and video here. As part of the city’s commemoration, of the World War I Centennial, the five other fellows will travel to New York and present their work at a Carnegie Council luncheon on November 13 at 12 noon EST. Watch the live webcast here: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/live. Here are the nine fellows and their research themes. For interviews with all the fellows on their work, click here. Katherine Akey, artist, Washington, DC: “Collective Memory and the Hidden Photographic Narratives of World War I” Mary Barton, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Historical Office: “European and American Counterterrorism Strategies in the Aftermath of World War I” Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): “Merchants of Death? The politics of Defense Contracting, Then and Now” Philip Caruso, Harvard University: “Airpower During World War I: Transforming International Law” Zach Dorfman, investigative journalist and Carnegie Council Senior Fellow: “Chemical Weapons from the Great War to Syria and Beyond” Tanisha Fazal, University of Minnesota: “The Politics and Medicine of Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Since World War I” Richard Millett, University of Missouri-St. Louis: “The United States, the Western Hemisphere, and World War I: Forgotten Aspects” Seiko Mimaki, Takasaki City University of Economics, Japan: “World War I as a Key Moment in the History of Humanitarianism: Jane Addams and Her Cosmopolitan Ethics” Charles Sorrie, Trent University, Canada: “The Legacy of American Press Censorship During the First World War” CONNECT WITH US: Podcasts | RSS | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram Carnegie Council’s programs, including our free podcasts, audios, and videos, are made possible through the generous donations of supporters like you. Please consider making a tax-deductible gift to the Council. We thank you very much for your support. DONATE/JOIN To host or sponsor a Carnegie Council event, or dedicate an event to a friend, family member, or colleague, please call Jared Rabinowitz at 212-838-4120 ext. 237. To learn about the exclusive privileges of membership in the Carnegie Council’s Andrew Carnegie Society, Friends Society, 2114 Society, and Centennial Founders, please visit our How to Give page. Copyright © 2018 Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 170 East 64th Street New York, NY 10065 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.
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The Living Legacy of the First World War In June 1917, the first 14,000 American Expeditionary Force soldiers landed in Saint-Nazaire, France. Their arrival marked a tectonic shift in global politics, as the United States turned the principled idealism of its progressive era outward in an effort to restructure a broken international system. Over the remaining months of the centennial anniversary of World War I, Carnegie Council will support and publish original research and analyses on the war, its long-term impacts on societies around the world, and its lasting imprint on the present. World War I ended an era in some ways resembling the current one—remembered for its relative stability, globalizing trends, and economic transformations. Yet, it was also an era marked by dramatic economic and political inequalities, with much of the world's population living under direct imperial administration. The war nourished the seeds of change. It beckoned the last gasps of imperial competition among the European great powers, and triggered the collapse of several longstanding multinational empires. It challenged the validity of monarchical rule and provided a platform for the proponents of global self-governance. The war irrevocably transformed ideas about nationalism, imperialism, collective security, global governance, transnationalism, and great power politics. Funded with a grant from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, this project will create up to 10 new non-resident fellowships to conduct original historical research on various aspects of the First World War, breathing new life into this rich history and gleaning lessons, trends, and perspectives obscured to earlier observers. Fellows will also employ their historical studies to shed light on the contours of the modern world—exploring the war's enduring presence in contemporary ethical debate, political discourse, governing institutions, demography, law, international relations, and other relevant areas. They will publish and publicly present their findings in articles and podcasts in the months leading up to Armistice Day, 2018. With the passing of the last veterans of the Great War, active public remembrance is essential. The 'Living Legacy' project will join other centennial initiatives that help rising generations to understand the weight and gravity of this moment in global history; to grapple with the dynamics and dilemmas citizens and their leaders faced; and to discover for themselves the meaning of the war in the past, present, and future. This project has been made possible with the generous support of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. ABOUT THE RICHARD LOUNSBERY FOUNDATION The Richard Lounsbery Foundation aims to enhance national strengths in science and technology through support of a variety of programs in research, education, and public policy. Among its international initiatives, the Foundation has a long-standing priority in Franco-American relations, as Richard Lounsbery was a U.S. Army officer who served in France during World War I. For more, go to www.rlounsbery.org. Reed Bonadonna Reed Bonadonna Senior Fellow, 'The Living Legacy of the First World War;' Global Ethics Fellow Alumnus VIEW BIO PROGRAM RESOURCES Education for Peace: The Living Legacy of the First World War Mary Barton, Philip Caruso, Zach Dorfman, Richard Millett The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Chemical Weapons Zach Dorfman Update on the Carnegie Council First World War Fellows, 'The Living Legacy of WWI' Project Reed Bonadonna The Living Legacy of WWI: Counterterrorism Strategies in the War's Aftermath, with Mary Barton Mary Barton, Reed Bonadonna The Living Legacy of WWI: The Legacy of American Press Censorship in World War I, with Charles Sorrie Charles Sorrie, Reed Bonadonna The Living Legacy of WWI: Forgotten Aspects of the Western Hemisphere & WWI, with Richard Millett Richard Millett, Reed Bonadonna The Living Legacy of WWI: Merchants of Death? The Politics of Defense Contracting, with Christopher Capozzola Christopher Capozzola, Reed Bonadonna The Living Legacy of WWI: Chemical Weapons from the Great War to Syria, with Zach Dorfman Zach Dorfman, Reed Bonadonna The Living Legacy of WWI: Jane Addams & Her Cosmopolitan Ethics, with Seiko Mimaki Seiko Mimaki, Reed Bonadonna The Living Legacy of WWI: The Politics & Medicine of Treating Post-Traumatic Stress, with Tanisha Fazal Tanisha Fazal, Reed Bonadonna The Living Legacy of WWI: Airpower During the First World War, with Philip Caruso Philip Caruso, Reed Bonadonna View All The Living Legacy of the First World War Resources © 2018 Carnegie Council | 170 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065 | 212-838-4120 | info@cceia.org Carnegie Council provides an open forum for discussion. Views expressed are not necessarily those of Carnegie Council.