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The National World War I Memorial is a national memorial commemorating the service rendered by members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I.The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the World War I Centennial Commission to build the memorial in Pershing Park, located at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.
In 2004, Congress named it the nation's official World War I museum, and construction started on a new 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) expansion and the Edward Jones Research Center underneath the original memorial, which was completed in 2006. The Liberty Memorial was designated a National Historic Landmark on September 20, 2006. [18]
A ceremonial groundbreaking for the memorial was held in November 2017. Construction of the memorial is funded through private donation, with the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars each giving $300,000 at the groundbreaking event. Rendering of the new National World War I Memorial in Washington DC.
Over the past 40 years, memorials to America's 20th century wars have sprung up across Washington, D.C., with one conspicuous omission: There was no national memorial to veterans of World War I in ...
Mojave Memorial Cross; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.) National World War I Museum and Memorial; Navy – Merchant Marine Memorial; Newton City Hall and War Memorial; Over the Top to Victory; Paragould War Memorial; Peace Cross; Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch; Sierra Madre Memorial Park; Soldiers and McKinley Memorial Parkways
War memorial in East Ilsley, restored in 2008, and featuring combined original list of World War I and later World War II names [334] Elsewhere, changes in post-war politics impacted considerably on the memorials. in Belgium, the Flemish IJzertoren tower had become associated with Fascism during the Second World War and was blown up in 1946 by ...
District of Columbia War Memorial, on the National Mall; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.), in Pershing Park; World War I Memorial (Norfolk, Connecticut) World War I Memorial (Boston), Massachusetts; National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri; World War I Memorial (Atlantic City, New Jersey)
Each plate bore a dead service member's name, their branch of service, and the words "Memorial Tree, World War, 1917-18." The markers are arranged in alphabetical order, from Edward D. Adams in the north to Randolph T. Zane to the south.