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Article: MONUMENT TO CONVEY WORLD WAR II'S ESSENCE.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- March 9, 1997
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Byline: Janny Scott The New York Times
The idea for the $100 million World War II memorial to be built on the Mall in Washington, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, first surfaced in 1987 in Jerusalem Township, Ohio, at an annual county fish fry.
Marcy Kaptur, then a third-term congresswoman from Toledo, was navigating the crowded hall with a plate of Lake Erie perch when the voice of a retired mail carrier and World War II veteran came booming across the room.
``Hey, Congresswoman Kaptur!'' she says she remembers Roger Durbin calling out. ``Why isn't there a World War II memorial in Washington?''
``There is ...