WWI Living History Weekend

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Sat, Sep 14, 2024 - Sun, Sep 15, 2024  9am - 5pm

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Join us at the National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC, for a weekend of immersive events hosted by The Doughboy Foundation, celebrating the newly installed sculpture "A Soldier’s Journey," the final component of the memorial.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2024, 9:00AM- 5:00PM

Displays by WWI Re-enactors, Hello Girls, National Mobile WWI Museum, WWI Vehicles, and historical presentations including:
- The American Expeditionary Forces Headquarters Band
- Tom Callinan, Connecticut’s 1st State Troubadour
- “A Soldier’s Journey Home,” A one-man play by Douglas Taurel
- The Harlem Hellfighters, presentation by Marvin-Alonzo Geer & Ari Lopez Wei
- “General John Blackjack Pershing,” presentation by Chas Rittenhouse
- The Marine Corps Historical Company
- Last Post Association Buglers from The Menin Gate, Ypres, and Belgium
- Taps and Last Post at 5 pm

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024, 9:00AM- 5:00PM

Displays by WWI Re-enactors, Hello Girls, National Mobile WWI Museum, WWI Vehicles, and historical presentations including:
- The Community Bands of Westmoreland County
- The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
- “Marie Edmee LeRoux, The Story of a Hello Girl," presented by granddaughter Catherine Bourgin
- “1917, America enters the War,” presented by author Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
- “The U.S. Navy in WWI/ Yeoman (F) Women join the Navy,” presented by The U.S.S. Olympia Living History Crew, Navy History Heritage Command
- Taps and Last Post at 5 pm