We Are So Close: Help Award a Congressional Gold Medal for the WWI Hello Girls

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Following up on a podcast discussion we had last year to help the push to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the US Army’s Hello Girls of WW1, we have good news:

We are so close to reaching the numbers we need!

The Hello Girls of the WW1 US Army have never been officially recognized for the groundbreaking service they provided as America’s first women soldiers. In this call to action, an incredible group of people come back on to talk about why the Hello Girls should receive the Congressional Gold Medal.

Joining us are:

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, representing Missouri's Fifth Congressional District, and the original sponsor, H.R. 1572 Hello Girls Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2023:

(https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1572/text)

Dan Dayton, Former Executive Director, U.S. World War I Centennial Commission

Catherine Bourgin, granddaughter of Hello Girl Marie Edmee LeRoux

Carolyn Timbie, granddaughter of Hello Girls Chief Operator Grace Banker

Chris Christopher, Captain, USN (Ret.), US WW1 Centennial Commission

Diane Boettcher, Captain, USN (Ret.), genealogical researcher

Support a Congressional Gold Medal for the WWI Hello Girls! Instructions are here:

https://ww1cc.org/hellogirls

US listeners, email or call your Congressional Representatives today!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The Hey, folks. Welcome to the Battles of the First World War podcast.
0:57.3	Okay, so we're recording this in the middle of October 24,
1:02.7	counting down the last weeks of a momentous presidential election here in the U.S.
1:08.3	So let's talk politics.
1:12.4	Not the kind of politics that you think, though.
1:15.3	Tonight, we're here with some very special returning and new guests to discuss how
1:20.9	close we are to getting the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to the Hello Girls of World War I.
1:31.5	So we again have a call to action. For listeners of this podcast located in the United States,
1:37.9	it is time to take political action and ask those remaining Congress members who have not yet agreed to do so to award
1:47.7	the Congressional Gold Medal to the Hello Girls of World War I.
1:56.0	When the United States sent millions of her doughboys over there to fight on the World War I
2:02.2	battlefields of Belgium and France, she also sent over 200 American women soldiers as well.
2:09.8	These were not nurses or ambulance drivers assigned to dangerous work both near and well
2:15.9	behind the front.
2:17.5	These were the U.S. Army's first women soldiers assigned
2:21.5	as battlefield tactical communication specialists close to the battlefront.
2:27.5	Their skills were absolutely critical to the conduct
2:30.7	of the American Expeditionary Forces Combat Operations.
2:37.4	These Hello Girls were also quite literally the connection to diplomatic dialogue between the
2:43.0	American Command and its allies, as well as a vital link to the AEF's logistical operations
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