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Monday, November 10. 2003
NATO
THE BATTAL1
Veterans await WWII memorial
By Jennifer C. Kerr
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Tears
and pride mix as Navy veteran
Ted Burke talks about the
National World War II Memorial
and its significance as a
reminder of the sacrifices he and
millions of others made.
Recently diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer, the 83-year-
old former torpedoman has
made it his life’s goal to make it
to the Memorial Day weekend
dedication on the National Mall.
“I hope and pray to the good
Lord I’ll be there,” said Burke of
Rehoboth Beach, Del., a former
commander of the American
Legion Department of the
District of Columbia.
His daughter, Teddy Burke,
choked back tears and said if her
father cannot make it, “I’ll be
there for him, and I’ll be the
proudest person there.”
The memorial being built on
a 7.4-acre site between the
Washington Monument and the
Lincoln Memorial is the result
of years of fund raising and arm-
twisting by veterans, including
former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole.
Congress passed legislation
in 1993 to authorize construc
tion after veterans questioned
why there were memorials for
Vietnam, Korea and World War I
veterans but nothing for those of
World War II.
Dole said the memorial will be a
wonderful tribute to what he called
“the disappearing generation.’’
“You know, we didn’t come
back expecting somebody
would build a memorial,” said
Dole, who was gravely wounded
in combat. “We went back and a
lot of us poor guys got to go
back to school with the GI bill,
others went back to work.”
The Veterans Affairs
Department estimates that World
War II veterans are dying at a rate
of 1,056 a day — more than
385,000 a year. Mindful of this,
memorial officials plan to open
the site to the public in April,
ahead of the dedication May 29.
“We want as many to be able
to get in here and see this as we
can,” said project executive
Barry Owenby. Of the 16 mil
lion who served during the war,
fewer than 4 million are expect
ed to be alive when the memori
al is formally opened.
Ground was broken in
September 2001. More than two
years later, most of the granite and
bronze is in place. The memorial
has two hulking 43-foot arches
and 56 smaller granite pillars that
form an oval, encircling a sunken
plaza and pool.
The pillars represent each
state and territory from that era
and the District of Columbia.
Each is inscribed with the name
of a state or territory, and topped
off with two bronze wreaths.
The arches — one marked
“Atlantic” and the other “Pacific”
— symbolize the two theaters of
the war. Inside, each has four
bronze columns supporting huge
American eagles that hold a sus
pended victory laurel.
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of 24 sculpted bronze panels,eact
depicting scenes of the wareffon
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pool, is the “Freedom Wall,"
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of Woodbridge, Va. An Armi I
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Division, he fought in the Bank I
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Bronze Star.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Money still needed for statue
NEW YORK (AP) — A nonprofit group is look
ing for private donations to fund security
improvements needed to reopen the Statue of
Liberty, off-limits to the public since the Sept. 11
attacks.
The federal government already has spent
millions of dollars on upgrades, but about $5
million worth of security measures still are
needed before visitors can go inside the 151-
foot-high statue, National Park Service
spokesman Brian Feeney said.
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island
Foundation, which oversaw the statue's
restoration in the 1980s, offered to help raise
the funds, Feeney said.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument,a
58-acre island in New York Harbor, was closed
to the public immediately after the attacks,Tbe
island was reopened in December 2001, bd
visitors can no longer enter the statue.
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