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The World War I Memorial Controversy August 27, 2000 More than 24 years ago I was surprised by Jan Scruggs's Aug. 13 Close to Home piece about the memorial to District citizens who served in World ...
World War II Memorial Gets an OK / But controversy ... 2000-07-21 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- A six-member panel voted unanimously yesterday to approve the design plans for a World War II memorial ...
The stone pillars of the World War II Memorial have become a symbolic battleground in the government shutdown fight, ... has been the subject to controversy since it was proposed in in the late 1980s.
The planned statue shows a young girl seated next to an empty chair: a symbolic memorial to the estimated 80,000 to 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, who spent the war in Japanese military ...
Nicknames banned from Second World War memorial because they ‘risk causing offence’ Allowing a sobriquet onto monuments ‘risks creating difficult cases in the future’, rules Church court ...
"I sincerely hope this is the last legislative action Congress will have to take before the dedication of the World War II memorial in 2004," said Rep. Bob Stump, R-AZ, ...
A plea to subscribe to a YouTuber known for making controversial and racist comments has been repeatedly scrawled on the World War II memorial in Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza, photos show.