[bobjam]

A WWII monument is long overdue for Washington; but I shudder to think of what would be designed these days. Instead of a landmark memorializing America's glorious victory over the forces of evil, the Washington libs will end up constructing some off the wall monument to modern art that demonstrates the evil of war and how little it accomplishes.

I would like to see a statue of a GI with his foot on tojo's throat and running a bayonet through hitler.

[yonif]

I'll be it will be very politically correct as well.

[yonif]

I'll be = I'll bet

[Freakazoid]

BTW, from what I know of it (I saw the beginning of the construction in the summer of 2002), it looks to be pretty good.

[chickenlips]

It's a dignified and tasteful memorial in my opinion. It's well under construction and due to open on Memorial Day 2004, I think.

Some of the solid construction barriers have come down and now chain link fencing is up instead, so it is visable to the public, right now. At first I thought the location was a poor choice, but now as I pass the construction almost daily and see it taking form, I think the right decision was made to locate it there.