The War We Forgot

That's a pretty BIG Journalistic ERROR to put... "World War I has no national monument." in your SUBTITLE...

FYI - The Liberty Memorial, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is the National World War I Memorial of the United States and houses the The National World War I Museum, as designated by the United States Congress in 2004. On September 21, 2006, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne declared the memorial a National Historic Landmark.

It was dedicated on November 11, 1926, by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. In attendance at the groundbreaking ceremony on November 1, 1921, were Lieutenant General Baron Jacques of Belgium, Admiral Earl Beatty of Great Britain, General Armando Diaz of Italy, Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France, and General John Pershing of the United States. In 1935, bas reliefs by Walker Hancock of Jacques, Beatty, Diaz, Foch and Pershing were unveiled.

The Liberty Memorial houses the official World War I museum of the United States. Among other landscaping, its grounds include two large sphinx sculptures, the centerpiece 217-foot (66 m) tower, and the museums around and under the tower. Commensurate with the memorial's congressional designation as the "NATIONAL MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM" a new, much larger museum opened in 2006 beneath the main memorial to form a huge museum complex.
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Again... THE... NATIONAL WWI MONUMENT ("THE LIBERTY MEMORIAL") AND MUSEUM IS IN KANSAS CITY, MO.... AND HAS BEEN DECORATING THE KANSAS CITY SYLINE SINCE 1926! PERIOD! GOOGLE IT! PICK-UP A HISTORY BOOK... TAKE A CLASS... WHATEVER! IT"S ONLY A FORGOTTEN WAR BY IGNORANT PEOPLE... LIKE THE GUY WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE! AGAIN... WWI NATIONAL MONUMENT AND MUSEUM... NOT IN D.C. - IT'S IN KC!

The WW I memorial in Washington DC was placed there by the people of Washingotn DC to honor its native sons that fought and died there (so a city of Washington DC memorial). The reason it looks so dilapidated is DC government thinks that the Feds (park service) should care for it and the Feds think since it is a DC memorial, that DC should care for it.

So no, there is no National memorial for WW I.

There is a World War I Memorail on the Mall in DC. I was suprised a couple of years ago, when we happend upon it after taking my father; a World War II vet to see the Memorial. His father fought in World War I. After we let my dad spend his time at the memorial, we walked along the Reflecting pool along the left walkway towards the Lincoln Memorial and Korean War Memorial; my father walked down a path off to the left, and came upon The World War I memorial, kind of deladpidated, and not taken care of, which is kind of what our government does to all the vets of foreign wars. This memorial had listed names of soldiers either lost, missing or killed in action; I'm not sure if it listed all of them, or only soldiers from the DC area.
The unique thing that happened to my dad was that along this path he ran into a middle aged couple from England that were talking to him, and thanked him personally for what he did in the European theater; her comment was that, 'If it were not for the United States and their Military, she would be speaking German today'.
Tony, if you work in Washington, go visit the World War I Memorial and tell me if I'm correct, in that, there is a National World War I Memorial on the Mall in Washington, DC.

Mr. Dokoupil

FYI...

The Liberty Memorial, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is the National World War I Memorial of the United States and houses the The National World War I Museum, as designated by the United States Congress in 2004. On September 21, 2006, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne declared the memorial a National Historic Landmark.

It was dedicated on November 11, 1926, by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. In attendance at the groundbreaking ceremony on November 1, 1921, were Lieutenant General Baron Jacques of Belgium, Admiral Earl Beatty of Great Britain, General Armando Diaz of Italy, Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France, and General John Pershing of the United States. In 1935, bas reliefs by Walker Hancock of Jacques, Beatty, Diaz, Foch and Pershing were unveiled.

Mr. Dokoupil,

The Liberty Memorial, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is the National World War I Memorial of the United States and houses the The National World War I Museum, as designated by the United States Congress in 2004.

It was dedicated on November 11, 1926, by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. In attendance at the groundbreaking ceremony on November 1, 1921, were Lieutenant General Baron Jacques of Belgium, Admiral Earl Beatty of Great Britain, General Armando Diaz of Italy, Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France, and General John Pershing of the United States. In 1935, bas reliefs by Walker Hancock of Jacques, Beatty, Diaz, Foch and Pershing were unveiled.

Try a little research before you write an article... ever heard of Google!

That monument is for residents of Washington DC who served in WWI -- it's not a national monument. http://www.dcpreservation.org/endangered/2003/warmemorial.html

There is a monument for WWI on the Washington Mall. It is a small dome supported by round pillars. Under the dome it says that it is a memorial for "The World War."
Carol K.