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Article: HARD-FOUGHT; Salute in stone culmination of a 17-year campaign.(WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- May 21, 2004
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Byline: Jon Ward, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A national memorial to honor World War II veterans seemed like a simple, popular and long-overdue idea in 1987, when Rep. Marcy Kaptur first filed a bill calling for its creation.
But her bill was just the start of a marathon of authorizing legislation, design considerations, fund-raising challenges and site disputes that ended with last month's unveiling of the $175 million granite monument on the Mall.
The process has "taken 17 years, about four times as long as it took to fight the war," says Mrs. Kaptur, Ohio Democrat. "It's heartbreaking. This should have passed in 1987. But in the end, we were ...