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By: Martha Bace, Processing Archivist<\/p>\n

This week, we are featuring a series of blog posts dedicated to our current exhibition up in the Pearce Foyer of Gorgas Library. The exhibition, “Glimpses of the Great War, Abroad and At Home,” was curated by Martha Bace and Patrick Adcock and will be on view until mid-September. Read the first post of this series from Monday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Over_There\"<\/a>

Over There, Words and Music by George C. Cohan, M1646.C64 O93 1918x<\/p><\/div>\n

Other items on display represent life on the home front.\u00a0 Scrapbooks kept by Janie Mae Epps and Mrs. Oscar Hall show how the war was viewed by those left waiting for fathers, brothers, husbands, and friends to come home.\u00a0 Newspapers were eagerly examined by those anxiously waiting for the latest word from the front.\u00a0\u00a0 The entertainment industry also did its part boosting morale with songs like \u201cOver There,\u201d \u201cKeep the Home Fires Burning,\u201d \u201cOh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning,\u201d \u201cAfter the War is Over,\u201d and \u201cWhen You Come Back.\u201d\u00a0 The sheet music for these and many other patriotic and sentimental favorites could be found in most homes across the nation.<\/p>\n

Of particular note to me are the service flag and letters.\u00a0 The service flag, featuring a white field bordered in red with blue or gold stars, hung in the windows of homes where a member of the family was serving in the Armed Forces.\u00a0 The flags, which are still in use today, had one blue star for each family member serving.\u00a0 However, the blue star was changed to gold if the family received notice of the death of their soldier.\u00a0 And with the service flag, there are the letters\u2026 letters written by wide-eyed young men who had probably never been more than one hundred miles from their birthplace before\u2026 letters written by young men longing to be home with loved ones at Christmas\u2026 letters from soldiers describing the French and Italian countryside and the vehicles used by the Red Cross\u2026 letters written just to say \u201cI\u2019m fine\u201d and \u201cI was so happy to get your letter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"F13.01\"<\/a>

Telegram regarding Lt. George Waring Huston’s death, Huston Family Papers, MSS.0724<\/p><\/div>\n

All these letters are interesting, but probably the most poignant item to me in the entire exhibit is the War Department telegram from the collection of the Huston family papers.\u00a0 It was sent on November 18, 1918 \u2013 seven days after the Armistice was signed, stating that Lieutenant George Waring Huston was killed in action on October 16th<\/sup>.\u00a0 You have to think that on November 11th<\/sup>, his family in Selma, Alabama, was jubilant thinking that their son would be coming home soon, only to have those happy thoughts crushed by a single sentence on a small tan piece of paper, just seven short days later.\u00a0 Looking at the faces of these men and boys you see in the photos of this exhibit, most of whom are unidentified, you have to wonder if they made it back to the arms of their loved ones, or if instead, those patiently waiting loved ones also received one of the small, sparsely worded telegrams.<\/p>\n

It has been fascinating to me to see this war \u2013 this \u201cGreat War\u201d \u2013 virtually at first hand.\u00a0 Reading the letters\u2026 examining the uniforms\u2026 looking at the faces of the soldiers\u2026 reminds me that many of us have a portion of this war in our pasts.\u00a0 In my own family\u2019s history, my recently wed great aunt, Catherine Smith, waited at home for her husband, Sergeant Oscar M. Smith.\u00a0 Oscar was mortally wounded going \u201cover the top\u201d near Marne, France, on October 9, 1918; he died in hospital the following day \u2013 one month and two days before it was over, over there.\u00a0 His is just one story among millions, and the University Libraries Division of Special Collections is fortunate to be the repository of many of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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