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As the sun sets on Friday, September 13, the World War I Centennial Commission and the Doughboy Foundation are officially unveiling “A Soldier’s Journey,” a 25-ton bronze centerpiece for thewill commemorate the special evening, which is also the 164th birthday of the park’s namesake, WWI General John J. Pershing. The project is over a decade in the making.
Unlike the rest of DC’s memorials for 20th century wars, the newest addition does not reside on the National Mall. The Commemorative Works Act of 1984 made further construction on the historic land difficult, but Edwin Fountain, the former vice chair of the World War I Centennial Commission, says the new location is a benefit.
While working in DC as a lawyer in 2008, Fountain co-founded the World War I Memorial Foundation. The volunteer-based group led an effort to restore the 1931, which commemorated local lives lost in the Great War. Working on the project made him realize that the WWI conflict was not adequately represented in DC. There were major memorials for World War II, Vietnam, and Korea but nothing for WWI.
The Foundation began planning to erect an official tribute to WWI in 2008. When Congress created the “World War I Centennial Commission” in 2013, Fountain could finally push the monument to the finish line as vice chair.
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