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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American History TV 20141223

Including digging the trenches, which came out in hardcover in 2008. He was recently given the prestigious honor of being named a fellow he will be sharing onh us today his work archaeology. Welcome andrew robertshaw. [applause] good morning come everybody. Thank you very much for the invitation. Thank you very much for coming out today. I hope to make this interesting. I want to look at a number of things. A new discipline of archaeological i will field archaeological battlefield archaeology. Individuals on found in 2005. I want to start with a joke. Doing british way of things. I was asked to give a talk to a society of genealogists. They take themselves terribly seriously. Thes why im a member of society of family historians. The story i told them was based on the 1920s. The british comedian named max miller. When he was about 22, he went and saidsaw his father i want to marry miss green. His dad said you can marry her. I had a bicycle and i got around a bit. She might be your siste ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 University Of Wisconsin World War I Exhibit 20141224

Brought back from his service in germany when he served in the american military. The song is wooden heart. Some of you remember as a german marching song. So weve identified our soldier. We knew about his brother. Wed seen memorials. We wanted to try and find the family to get the photograph. Wed done it before so why not . Why wouldnt it work . We went to find where the family had lived. We knew the address. His father was an electrician. His mother ran a tobacconist. When we got there, there was nothing at all. It was a memorial park. We walked over to look at the black for the memorial park. It said it was a memorial for allied bombing in 1943, that wiped out the entire city block. Thats why there was no family. But it was one final twist to the story. Do i remember i mentioned that leopold was about 23, a real artist. He was a corporal. We knew that from his collar dogs. He was also a recipient of the iron cross 2nd class in the list regiment, the 16th bavarian reserve regiment. G ....

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