After being closed for more than a year, the D.C. War Memorial is slated to reopen Thursday with a ceremony hosted by the Trust for the National Mall, National Park Service, D.C. Preservation League and the World War I Memorial Foundation.
The War Memorial was built in 1931 and was the first memorial on the National Mall to honor war veterans. It memorializes the local heroes who served in WWI by listing all 499 District residents who lost their lives in the war. The memorial and its grounds, on Independence Avenue south of the Reflecting Pool, have been under restoration since August 2010.
<br/><small><a href=”http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=D.C.+War+Memorial,+washington+dc&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.953203,61.347656&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&hq=D.C.+War+Memorial,+washington+dc&t=m&ll=38.887626,-77.043514&spn=0.013362,0.01708&z=14&iwloc=A” style=”color:#0000FF;text-align:left”>View Larger Map</a></small></div> <p>The restoration was funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which also is funding the nearly complete Jefferson Memorial seawall restoration and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and landscape restoration, slated for completion in spring 2012.</p>
