Their last battle
the fight for the national World War II memorial
1st ed.
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Word Count
67,000 words, Guess
Page Count
268 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3680971M
- ISBN-100465045820
- OCLC Control Number506123762
- OCLC Control Number53840221
- OCLC Control Numbertheirlastbattlef00mill
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003025543
- LibraryThing5781527
- Goodreads569985
Classifications
- DDC940.54/6573
- LCCD836.W37 M55 2004
Description
"In 1987, Roger Durbin, a retired mail carrier and World War II veteran, asked his congresswoman a pointed question: "How come there's no memorial to World War II in Washington?" From that simple question sprang the long quest to create the National World War II Memorial on the Mall in Washington. The struggle grew into a seventeen-year odyssey, beginning with a seemingly uncontroversial Congressional bill and culminating in the official opening on Memorial Day weekend in 2004." "In Their Last Battle, Nicolaus Mills tells the definitive story of the monumental fight to make the memorial a reality. From arguments over its location to political stonewalling and criticism of its design, the memorial became a lightning rod for politicians, critics, veterans' groups, and others who lined up either for or against it, even as the number of surviving World War II veterans dwindled with each year of delay. The memorial's rocky progress to completion is a compelling story of Washington politics, but ultimately it reveals what public monuments can tell us about America and the values it honors."--BOOK JACKET.
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