The Department of the Interior has announced that the National Park Service will spend $7.3 million on restoration of the District of Columbia War Memorial. The funds come from $750 million that was allocated to the nation's parks as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The memorial's restoration is one of 750 park projects around the country that are receiving stimulus funds. One of the two major goals of the World War I Memorial Foundation has thus been accomplished. The Foundation is continuing to lobby for Congressional authorization to re-dedicate the memorial as a "National and District of Columbia War Memorial."
Here are links to the Washington Post's article and Fox 5 coverage of the funding of the memorial's restoration.
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