National World War I Memorial Foundation formed

In August 2008, friends of the District of Columbia War Memorial from around the country incorporated the World War I Memorial Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation whose mission is to to raise funds for the restoration of the DC War Memorial, and to sponsor and raise funds for the re-dedication of that site as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial. The honorary chairman of the Foundation is Frank Buckles of West Virginia, the 107-year-old last surviving American veteran of World War I. The Foundation's president is David DeJonge, a Michigan photographer who for the past several years has traveled the world photographing the last survivors of the "Great War."