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In that those who didnt participate, meaning the civilians left at home, especially in the u. S. Where the war didnt come here, so the civilians didnt have a context of this ultimate suffering that the soldiers went through. And so to the people at home who were waiting for their men to come home, they came back. It was a sensationalism in the sense that you guys were heros in the war. Now lets get on with our lives because ive been waiting for you. And i think that that idea of civilians wait iing, it kind of steam rolls soldier memory. The soldiers arent waiting in the same sense that the ci...

Tv and sunday on American History tv on cspan3. He discussed how song writers contributed to the war effort by writing patriotic music. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Good evening to all of you. Im bob enholm, the executive director of the Woodrow Wilson house. Were a private charity supported by donations of supporters, including many of you. For that i thank you. Thanks for being here this evening. This home is the home to which president and mrs. Wilson moved the very day they left the white house, on march 4 in 1921. They both lived here the rest their lives. Wilson passed away three year...

Disillusioned pessimists. We have created a polarity here between militaryists and disillusioned pessimists. Most of us dont fit in with that. Were in between. Right . He says soldiers were not disenchanted by the war. The war never offered them an enchanting prospect. They were just fed up. He had not wanted war. But he engaged in it. He liked it less than he expected. But he proposed to see it through. If which god forbid similar circumstances arose in 1929, he would do it again. There are no Great Expectations of going into the trenches. No one naively look at the war and thought this is go...

Are a few mother songs, mothers proud that youre in uniform, sonny, that sort of thing, that unfortunately had not survived. The songs are the love songs of the war are largely about a couple, whether married or not, separated. So the emotions of warfare in song are in the love songs, and youll see this a little bit later, are about separation, parting, loneliness, longing, the hope of return. You find those in the love songs of world war i, and you find them in the love songs of world war ii. And those three wars, civil, i and ii, are really the wars where there is a large body of song becaus...

George Gershwin, one of the most significant and popular American composers of all time. He wrote primarily for the Broadway musical theatre, but his orchestral and piano compositions were also important. His notable works included the composition Rhapsody in Blue and the opera Porgy and Bess.