Group fighting for WWI memorial at Pershing Park

As the centennial for World War I approaches, a group of District residents is making a push to keep the city’s war memorial on the National Mall from being co-opted as the official national memorial to the war.

The Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia says Pershing Park on Pennsylvania Avenue is much better suited to be the new national memorial site and is asking for a pending bill in Congress to be amended.