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Article: Tom FEENEY Nation's memorial to its World War II fallen is ready
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 2, 2004
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AGING members of the "greatest generation" now can see how they
will be remembered in the decades and centuries to come. Fifty-nine
years after combat ended, the National World War II Memorial opened
Thursday, about a month ahead of schedule.
The American Battle Monuments Commission expects 800,000 people to
descend on the Mall in Washington, D.C., for the dedication of the
$174 million memorial during Memorial Day weekend. In the meantime,
the public can roam the grounds and get up close.
"When we first learned we were ahead of schedule, we asked
ourselves, with our World War II veterans dying off at a rate of
1,200 a day, can we in good faith leave the memorial in inactive
status between ...