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Article: More Salvos in Memorial Fight;Commission Delays Decision on Korean War Monument
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- The Washington Post
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- December 14, 1990
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Washington's latest war memorial war continued yesterday as two
bitterly opposed factions presented designs for a national Korean
War Veterans Memorial to the Commission of Fine Arts. But neither
side came away with a victory. Saying that the "design information
was insufficient," the commission postponed a decision for at least
one month.
Because of its sponsorship by a federal agency, only one of the
designs - that forwarded by the firm of Cooper-Lecky Architects with
the support of the National Park Service and the Korean War Veterans
Memorial Advisory Board - was officially on the agenda, as ruled by
commission Chairman J. Carter Brown.
Accordingly, the commission ordered ...