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WWII Memorial Media Archive
Major national media outlets and commentators react to the National WWII Memorial.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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