{"614456":{"#nid":"614456","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech-Lorraine Commemorates the Centennial of WWI and the Armistice","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn 8-11 November 2018, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lorraine.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Lorraine (GTL)\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cets.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for European and Transatlantic Studies (CETS)\u003C\/a\u003E presented a series of events to commemorate the centennial of the armistice of the First World War.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program kicked off with a symposium held on the GTL campus featuring a keynote address by distinguished Georiga Tech alumnus and Nunn School Distinguished Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/philip-breedlove\u0022\u003EGeneral Philip M. Breedlove\u003C\/a\u003E, followed by presentations by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Morrow\u003C\/strong\u003E, a professor at the University of Georgia,\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/seymour-e-goodman\u0022\u003ESeymour Goodman\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents\u0026#39; Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and\u0026nbsp;co-organizer of the largest symposium on WWI in Georgia,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EColonel William Woodcock\u003C\/strong\u003E, (USAF, Ret.), a WWI historian. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/vicki-birchfield\u0022\u003EVicki Birchfield\u003C\/a\u003E, CETS co-director and the Nunn School professor\u0026nbsp;in residence at GTL until 2020, moderated the plenary session and Q\u0026amp;A with the audience of approximately 150 people including students, faculty and representatives from local and regional authorities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the plenary session, General Breedlove presented a special commendation to\u0026nbsp;Gilbert Kesse, an 89-year old local \u0026ldquo;Messin\u0026rdquo; who has carried the American flag in\u0026nbsp;armistice ceremonies in Metz for the past 35 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, November 9\u003Cspan style=\u0022font-size:10.8333px\u0022\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMonique Seefried\u003C\/strong\u003E, a historian and commissioner on the U.S. WWI Centennial Commission, joined the other distinguished participants and a group of GTL students and faculty to discuss WWI and the challenges of \u0026ldquo;devoir de memoire\u0026rdquo; or the \u0026ldquo;duty to remember\u0026rdquo; in the context of her work and the mission and activities of the Centennial Commission. This discussion took place during a\u0026nbsp;group excursion to\u0026nbsp;local sites that helped contextualize the significance of the Lorraine region and the linkages between three wars (Franco-Prussian 1870-71, WWI and WWII). The sites included the Gravelotte Museum, Dornot-Corny Battlefield Memorial, and Maison Schuman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe day was capped off by a special jointly organized program with the Mayor of Metz featuring an address by General Breedlove and a presentation by Seefried to\u0026nbsp;the Military Governor of Metz and a local audience of approximately 40 people.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Saturday, November 10, the GTL group engaged in an all day commemorative excursion with symposium participants--excluding Seefried, who was in Paris to represent the US Centennial Commission for the main national event hosted by French President Macron--and the addition of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDiego Ruiz Palmer\u003C\/strong\u003E, policy adviser to the NATO assistant secretary general for Emerging Security Challenges, who brought a unique European perspective to the commentary provided by the US delegation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESites visited included: \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESt. Mihiel and the Montsec Memorial, site of a major American battle that resulted in the liberation of the first French town, Thiaucourt, less than an hour\u0026rsquo;s drive from the GTL campus\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMeuse Argonne American Cemetery where the\u0026nbsp;largest number of American military dead in Europe (14,246) are buried\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EVerdun\/Douamont: Necropole representing the graves of 16,000 French soldiers and Ossuary with remains of 130,000 French and German unknown soldiers.\u0026nbsp;Two special memorials to Jewish and Muslim soldiers.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Sunday, November 11, General Breedlove participated in the formal armistice ceremonies of Metz at the Monuments aux Morts where he placed a wreath presented by Vicki Birchfield and GTL students, Liana Rix and Kyle Lundberg, in honor of French-American friendship.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn 8-11 November 2018, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lorraine.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Lorraine (GTL)\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cets.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for European and Transatlantic Studies (CETS)\u003C\/a\u003E presented a series of events to commemorate the centennial of the armistice of the First World War.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On 8-11 November 2018, Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL) and the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies (CETS) presented a series of events to commemorate the centennial of the Armistice of the First World War"}],"uid":"34435","created_gmt":"2018-11-20 15:19:50","changed_gmt":"2018-11-26 23:13:52","author":"jpalacios9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614455":{"id":"614455","type":"image","title":"The CETS WW1 Armistice commemoration delegation visited Montsec American Monument","body":null,"created":"1542726818","gmt_created":"2018-11-20 15:13:38","changed":"1542726818","gmt_changed":"2018-11-20 15:13:38","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233934","name":"45946920_759124164455196_1214080378613006336_o.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/45946920_759124164455196_1214080378613006336_o.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/45946920_759124164455196_1214080378613006336_o.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":385615,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/45946920_759124164455196_1214080378613006336_o.jpg?itok=_vkdv7YL"}}},"media_ids":["614455"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2908","name":"Georgia Tech Lorraine"},{"id":"178790","name":"world war I"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}