Howdy and welcome to another episode of Wise about Texas. I'm your host Ken Wise. I want to thank you for tuning in today for a little bit of Texas history.

Well, it's been a while since the last episode I took a little longer break than I like to take I try not to have

too much space between episodes but real life intervenes from time to time I had a

week where I helped coach a moot court team at T.C.U. Go Frogs.

And took the opportunity to speak to the seventh graders at Adams Middle School in Hazlitt, Texas, and had a great time

doing that.

Came back through Austin for the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society's World War I

Commemorative Program, a special session of the Texas Supreme Court convened in the

historic Supreme Court courtroom in the

courtroom in the Texas Capitol and commemorated the service of

lawyers and judges in World War I and that was a fantastic event. It coincided with the release of the winter

issue of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Journal, which is dedicated

to World War I.

You can go to Texascourt history.org

and get a copy of that journal and all the back issues.

The journal's very interesting publication, David Furlow, a great historian is the editor and

the great war issue is very interesting. A little bit of selfish, I do have an article published in there about training for the Texas and Oklahoma units that occurred in San Antonio.

But you're going to find a lot of very interesting history of some prominent figures in the

Texas legal world in their service in World War I. You know unfortunately War I, November 11th was the 100th anniversary of

armistice day, the end of World War I and that war is, I hate to use a forgotten, but it seems to be largely forgotten.

It's certainly not discussed very much.

That was to be the war that ends all wars.

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