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Year: 2001

June 7, 2001

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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June 7, 2001

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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June 4, 2001

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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June 4, 2001

World War II Memorial Protesters Sue to Halt Construction at Contested Site (Stars and Stripes)

By Dave Eberhart, Stars and Stripes The National Coalition to Save Our Mall (NCSM), World War II Veterans to Save the Mall, the D.C. Preservation League and others filed suit […]

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June 2, 2001

A Touch of Albert Speer (Der Speigel)

By Carlos Widman, Der Speigel Washington Gets A Huge WWII Monument -But the Memorial in Gold, Bronze and Granite Revisits The Aesthetic of the Defeated Enemy “Between the massive temple in […]

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June 1, 2001

Bad idea, bad spot for WWII Memorial (Chicago Sun-Times)

By Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times I am looking at an artist’s rendering for the World War II Memorial, which Congress and President Bush have decided with unseemly haste should deface the […]

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June 1, 2001

A memorial shouldn’t distract from the ideas defended (Editorial by The Akron Beacon-Journal)

Moviegoers brushed aside the unflattering reviews. All told, they parted with $75 million over the weekend to see Pearl Harbor, the summer blockbuster about the surprise Japanese attack on the […]

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May 30, 2001

Monumental Mistake (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

By Paul Greenberg, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Tim Hutchinson, the senior senator from Arkansas, sounds like he’s ready to climb on a bulldozer and start digging up much of the National Mall right […]

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May 30, 2001

World War II Memorial a Classic Example of Excess (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

By Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette If the goal of art and architecture is to elicit strong reactions, then the World War II monument succeeds. The designer, Friedrich St. Florian, a […]

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May 28, 2001

Monument for WWII should not be rushed (The Virginian-Pilot)

By Guy Friddell, The Virginian-Pilot This Memorial Day finds controversy roiling around a World War II monument for the National Mall in Washington, D.C. To my mind, only two features […]

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