November 11, 2004Veterans' DayThis year, more than most years. Veterans' Day started as Armistice Day, back before we started numbering the wars, as Col. Potter put it. WWII gets all the press, but WWI is where it started. I remember wandering around DC one Saturday afternoon, and coming across one of the more neglected memorials in town: That's the DC WWI memorial. It has a plaque with the names of all the DC residents who died in that war. There doesn't seem to be a national WWI memorial. Probably because no one thought to write a book about their generation. And because they're almost all gone. The closest we had in DC was this statue of John "Blackjack" Pershing: It's in a little enclave at Pennsylvania Avenue ans 14th Street, called Pershing Park. The thing also has one of the more unusual memorials I've seen: colored maps of several WWI battles etched into black marble. As for Denver, there's this WWI memorial in Fairmount Cemetery right near where I live: but the best memorial is probably the Colorado Veterans Memorial on the Mall, between the State Capitol and the City & County Building: Posted by joshuasharf at November 11, 2004 02:20 PM | TrackBackComments
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