Why is the WW2 memorial closed, but not the WW1 memorial?

[oneshooter]

[gopiscrap]

1. Good question

[russspeakeasy]

2. The optics are better. No WW1 vets to show on screen.

[joshcryer]

4. Technically West Potomac Park is closed.

The WW1 memorial is basically a gazebo:



If the park is closed why put a barricade up around gazebo in the park? Anyone in West Potomac Park is opening themselves up to a $50 fine but it's not being enforced.

The reality is that it's impossible to close up the national parks (especially those in DC) and that people will just wander on to them without a care in the world.

[Historic NY]

9. Its actually owned by the District....no the park service.

[joshcryer]

13. NPS administers it.

And it's technically closed.

You can still wander in there because there are many ways in and out of the park itself.

[DevonRex]

15. My picture's bigger.

[joshcryer]

16. Reading edit histories I see.

[DevonRex]

17. Haha. Not really. You see

for some reason I couldn't get the thumbnail to post. Only the huge one. Then I saw yours which is in between. Then I did see your edit and that you'd posted the big one first. Still don't know why the thumb won't post. Must have a gremlin...

[joshcryer]

18. Ha, I didn't see your post.

I'd suggest copying my URL and making a similar edit, 'cause a 5 mb jpg can be a pain for some (I have a 10mbps connection so it loads in a second or so here).

[DevonRex]

19. Done. Thanks

so much. I mean I wanted to show the gazebo but I didn't want it to take up all of DU. Sheesh. That happened to me on Facebook once when I posted my senior picture. It came out huge even though the pic I copied it from was just a little photo in a newspaper that had put all its past issues online. So it was really embarrassing when I looked at it about a week later and it took up an entire page all by itself in my photo section. If it had been a bad picture it would've been OK. It wasn't.

[joshcryer]

3. The one in West Potomac Park?

It's effectively a gazebo... why bother.

If you're talking about the one in Liberty Memorial Park that's locally controlled.

[Politicalboi]

5. Thanks Obama!

[SheilaT]

6. The WWI Memorial is in Kansas City, Missouri and

is locally funded. It's the only WWI museum in the country. Oh, and if you get to go, also check out the Rosedale Arch in nearby Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 1923 and is located in a decaying neighborhood on top of a hill. No one ever goes there anymore. What's most amazing to me is that it refers to the World War. Not the Great War, but the World War. In my limited knowledge of WWI, this is by far the earliest reference to it as a world war. Even Life Magazine took a couple of months into the outbreak of what we now call WWII to give it that name, and to retroactively call the earlier conflict WWI.

[The Midway Rebel]

8. Adding a link to WWI Museum

http://theworldwar.org/

Ya'll come see us, have some BBQ, drink some beer and listen to some blues while you are here.

[SheilaT]

10. Thanks for adding the link.

I've been there, both to the old one and the current one. Even the original, as musty and inadequate is it was, was pretty amazing. The current one should be seen by as close to everyone as possible.

I do miss BBQ. I'm in Santa Fe, and as much as I like it here, I'm not very impressed with the New Mexican style food.

[REP]

11. The Liberty Memorial has been beautifully restored

Well worth visiting. I've been to the top long before the restoration (I'm a native) and it's a lot less terrifying now. The Memorial has always been one of my favorite places.

The Rosedale BBQ is the best barbecue in town. Don't be fooled by the tourist traps with their nasty sauce and fatty meat. Edward's is pretty good, too.

[Abq_Sarah]

7. Because

There is no federally controlled WWI memorial in DC.

[DevonRex]

14. Yes there is. It's just a gazebo.

Last edited Wed Oct 9, 2013, 01:08 AM - Edit history (1)

In July 2010, the National Park Service announced that restoration work, funded by the federal stimulus package, would soon begin on the memorial.[4] Work began in October 2010,[5] and the memorial reopened on November 10, 2011.[6]

The memorial is administered by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks unit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_War_Memorial

[REP]

12. Because it's in Kansas City, Missouri.