I AGREE! The Liberal Progressive rewrite history folks embedded in the Govt are trying to minimize his contributions to the USA.
Forgot to add,,,,,, from what I saw of the design on the news, it looks like an Occupy Camp, awaiting the Socialists and Rats.
In the America I grew up in, every town had a nice little memorial for the vets of each war. Now, we have giant monstrosities in DC for us to worship. It's sick.
The trend in modern era memorials is to tell the "story" the organizers, backers and "artist" (in this case an architect) want to tell rather than honor the man himself.
Not only do these "book on the wall" style memorials become overly large, cumbersome and disjointed, like everything else today, the simple task of honoring a great man is seen as a chance by various interests to piggyback their agenda on to the design of the memorial to further their own goals - usually social and political.
Recall what happened at the Smithsonian with the display of the Enola Gay. It was hijacked by one-worlders and revisionist historians in an attempt to use it to tell their politically correct version of the events surrounding the use of atomic bombs to end WWII in the Pacific.
IMO (slightly sarcastic) the WWII Ike should be portrayed standing between Montgomery and Patton, hold them both at arm’s length and keeping them away from each other.
Anyway, that was Ike’s main job as SHAEF, keeping the Allies from fighting each other.
This reminds me of the King Memorial. His statue is white, he looks Chinese, the quote on the back is wrong - stupid all around. This Ike memorial design sounds just as stupid.
Frank Gehry builds modernist monstrosities like the LA Disney Hall and the “art” museum in Bilbao, Spain.
No thanks.
I read that Issa is investigating the bidding process...who voted for the architect and why.