D.C. War Memorial safe for now

The D.C. War Memorial will get to stay a city-only monument, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said Wednesday. Her office in a press release announced that she had reached an agreement with Reps. Ted Poe (R-TX), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) who were proposing a bill that would turn the memorial on the National Mall into a national World War I memorial.

Norton said they would continue to work together to pursue other options for a national WWI memorial in the District and in the meantime are re-designating the Liberty Memorial of Kansas City, MO as the “National World War I Museum and Memorial.”