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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 years later. Mrs. Wilson lived here until 1961. Then upon her death, left the home to the National Trust for historical preservation. It was opened as a Public Museum in 1963. We ....
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 going to be a good time. When they got there, it was pretty terrible. Then he gives us this striking, striking statement of how this doesnt fit in with what hemingway was saying. He says the greater the haorror of battle, the nobler of the man who is not morally ruined by it. If i was a minister and i said that from a pulpit, you would be s ....
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 because there was a sense of the nation engaged, that there was not certainly in the wars since world war ii. There arent a lot of songs about korea. And im not being snotty. It was a different kind of war. The people were not engaged by it. In vietnam, you had some songs, but theyre songs in which two groups are warring with one another. Give peace a chance, and whats the im an oaky from muskokee. Iraq ....
Because after all, we have been taught that the pilgrims that squanto taught them to warn them of had a good crop that first year. In exchange 21 they wanted to have a big cities to celebrate and to give thanks and play a little folk all. And that is how all of this began. Our modern understanding of thanksgiving is very much a 20th century invention. It was not a holiday that was marked throughout the first 300 years of europeans being permanently settled in the new world. But now it is entered American Mythology as true and squanto as a central part of the myth. What is not so much a part of our understanding of this. Was king philips war which followed about 40 years after the arrival of the pilgrims was an absolutely devastating war between the english and the dutch and it was ferocious probably the greatest percentage of the population of all of these peoples was killed, more than in any other american conflict. So it was ....