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Published: 3 September 2024
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A detail from Sabin Howard's sculpture created as part of the World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C., the first national memorial to those who served in the Great War. CBS News
HISTORY: Creating a memorial to the horrors of World War I
Washington, D.C., is home to numerous monuments, with a conspicuous omission: there has been no national memorial to the soldiers who’d fought and died in the First World War. After more than eight years of preparation, the completed World War I Memorial will be unveiled at a September ceremony – 106 years after the armistice ending the war was signed. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with Joseph Weishaar, who was a 25-year-old architectural intern when his design for the memorial beat out more than 360 applicants from over 20 countries; and with artist Sabin Howard, for whom devising and sculpting the 58-foot-long sculpture dramatizing the horrors of war, titled “A Soldier’s Journey,” was itself a bureaucratic battle between those frequent belligerents: artist and bureaucracy. (SEPT 1, 2024).
For more info:
- World War I Memorial, Washington, D.C. (National Park Service)
- Sabin Howard (Official site)
- Joe Weishaar (Official site)
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