Tucked away in a grove on the National Mall is a tattered ode to the 499 District of Columbia doughboys who perished in “The Great War” — a deteriorating temple often overlooked by visitors and locals alike.

Now 90 years after the Armistice Treaty ended World War I, there is a renewed campaign not only to restore the District’s monument, but also to expand it. Legislation introduced by Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, would recast it as the “National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial,” to honor the nearly 117,000 U.S. soldiers who died, 204,000 who were wounded and the millions more who fought in the war, which started in 1914.