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Congressional Medals & Donuts: Ep. #115
50 minutes Posted Mar 23, 2019 at 8:54 am.
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Congressional Medals & Donuts
Episode #115
Host - Theo Mayer
100 Years Ago This Week - Host | @
Mandates? Colonies by Another Name - Mike Shuster | @
Donuts & the YMCA Volunteers - Patri O’Gan | @
Suffragette Turned WWI Gov. Agent - Dr. Edward Lengel | @
Valor Medal Review Task Force - Zachary Austin | @
Congressional Gold Medal for the Hello Girls - Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs | @
National Medal of Honor Day 3/25 - Host | @
Dispatch Newsletter Highlights - Host | @
World War I - THEN
100 Years Ago This Week
Third Week of March, 1919 - Host
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com
The Great War Project
Mandates? Colonies by Another Name- Mike Schuster
http://greatwarproject.org/2019/03/17/mandates-colonies-by-another-name/
Remembering Veterans
Donuts & the YMCA Volunteers - Patri O’Gan
http://americanhistory.si.edu/profile/1154
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/donut-girls-wwi-helped-fill-soldiers-bellies-and-get-women-vote-180962864/
Stories of Service
Suffragette Turned WWI Gov. Agent - Dr. Edward Lengel
http://www.edwardlengel.com/from-womans-suffrage-leader-to-government-agent-in-world-war-i/
http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/
http://bit.ly/2tILSQI
World War I - NOW
Commission News
Valor Medal Review Task Force - Zachary Austin
http://ww1cc.org/valor
Remembering Veterans
“Hello Girls” Congressional Gold Medal - Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/04/these-women-were-denied-veteran-status-decades-congress-cant-overlook-them-again/?utm_term=.503bff7d7b82
https://www.amazon.com/Hello-Girls-Americas-First-Soldiers/dp/0674971477
http://elizabethcobbs.com/the-hello-girls/
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522596006/the-hello-girls-chronicles-the-women-who-fought-for-america-and-for-recognition
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/06/522596006/the-hello-girls-chronicles-the-women-who-fought-for-america-and-for-recognition
https://the1a.org/shows/2017-07-12/americas-first-women-soldiers-had-to-fight-for-recognition-as-veterans
National Medal of Honor Day 3/25 - Host
https://history.army.mil/moh/worldwari.html
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-88000/NH-88004.html
Articles and Posts
Highlight from the Dispatch Newsletter - Host
http://ww1cc.org/dispatch  
Sponsors:
The U.S. World War One Centennial Commission
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The Starr Foundation
the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
The Richard Lounsbery Foundation
Production:
Executive Producer: Dan Dayton
Producer & Host: Theo Mayer
Line Producer: Katalin Laszlo
Written by: Theo Mayer
Special segment host:
Mike Shuster
Dr. Edward Lengel
Researcher and writing support:
JL Michaud
Dave Kramer