Howdy. Welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise and I want to thank you for

tuning in for some Texas history today. It has been a very busy start to the year. I know I've owed

you this episode for a while, but life will sometimes get in the way won't it?

I will say that I've got the Wiesabout Texas production schedule laid out for the

spring and I've got some great stuff coming your way. I've had several meetings with several history

organizations in the last month or so and I'm going to be working on some great partnerships

to bring you the best Texas history content that I can. I've also been down to the

border since we've last spoken. I went down to Brownsville and Macallin and I'm

always inspired by the rich history and culture down there, so stay tuned

and make sure and tell your Texas loving friends about this podcast.

Well today we're going to conclude our peak at Texas in World War I with an episode I've called

Service to Country and Service to Texas.

And as a reminder, some of these, the content of the Texas and the Great War series has been based on a program designed by the Supreme Court Historical Society.

And we're going to talk today about individuals who served in the Great War and then continued that service to the state of Texas.

And certainly this episode will be a tribute to them, but it's also really a tribute to all the brave Americans who fought in the war to end all wars.

So let's go back to the early 20th century and get wise about Texas. As a reminder, part one of Texas.

As a reminder, part one of Texas in the Great War, we talked about the run up to war and the role

Texas played in that.

In part two, we talked about training the troops and how Texas and specifically all of Texas, El Paso other areas of the state but we focused on

San Antonio becoming a large center for training troops for World War I that was really the start of

San Antonio becoming and remaining today one of the largest military bases for the United States. Today we're going to talk about individuals and I'm going to start with a gentleman named few Brewster.

Few Brewster can trace his ancestry back to one of the pilgrims who came on the

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