Month: June 2001
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Hold the Marble (Boston Globe)
By Thomas Oliphant, Boston Globe From D-Day to Independence Day, a fascinating interaction of film, popular history, academic history, nostalgia, and agenda activism has revived our past.Good, on balance. But with […]
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Critics of World War II Memorial go back to court (Boston Herald)
By Don Feder, Boston Herald Try to imagine Mitsubishi, whose Zeros took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, erecting a monument to Americans who died there. How about Jane Fonda as […]
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Memorial Builder’s Owner Defrauded U.S. (The Washington Times)
By Daniel F. Drummond, The Washington Times Philipp Holzmann AG, a German conglomerate that owns one of the companies awarded part of a $56 million contract to construct the World […]
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Architect Designs WWII Memorial (Associated Press)
By Brian Carovillano, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Friedrich St. Florian is a product of the same country that bred Adolf Hitler. So it makes him feel especially proud to […]
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Memorial Builder Has Parent Link to Nazi Era (New York Times)
By Elaine Sciolino, The New York Times One of the two American companies selected last week to build a World War II memorial on the Mall is owned by a […]
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A Monument To Distorted Priorities
By Arianna Huffington, Syndicated Columnist No one ever went broke overestimating the ability of a politician to choose gesture over substance. As if we needed any more evidence of Washington’s distorted […]
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World War II Memorial Media (Editorial by Buffalo News)
A memorial to those who fought and won World War II, preserving freedom and shaping the world we now live in, is long overdue. As their generation passes and the […]
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Skirmish Lost, but Battle Over World War II Memorial Rages on (Stars and Stripes)
By Dave Eberhart, Stars and Stripes While President Bush dedicated the National D-Day Memorial in the bloodied town of Bedford, Va., and venerable U.S. paratroopers were feted at Normandy’s Utah […]
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New War Memorial Is Shrine to Sentiment (The New York Times)
By Herbert Muschamp, The New York Times Three works of architecture in postwar Washington have challenged the status quo: I. M. Pei’s East Wing of the National Gallery, Maya Lin’s […]
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Critics of World War II Memorial go back to court (Associated Press)
By David Ho, Associated Press Opponents of a planned World War II Memorial on the National Mall asked a federal judge on Monday to prevent planners from signing construction contracts […]
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