U.S. WWI memorial (or rather, lack there of)

[rm]

The U.S. has no national memorial to its soldiers who died in WWI. The last surviving U.S. veteran of that war is trying to do something about it. He's 107.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/09/world.war.one.memorial/index.html

Comments

[marchek.livejournal.com]

The First World War has always fascinated me the most. I'm not surprised that there aren't multitudes of monuments in the U.S. but if I'm not mistaken there is actually a national monument, it's just kind of small and hidden. I vaguely remember it from my summer internship in D.C.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nope. It's a local memorial for residents of the District who died. People have talked about converting it into the national memorial for years.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Ah, I stand corrected. There should bloody well be a national monument then.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Indeed.