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A Monument to Democracy
The World War II Memorial Site
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The 7.4-acre design calls for the destruction of the historic Rainbow Pool. It will replace the pool with a smaller pool inside a sunken granite enclosure surrounded by high walls. The subterranean plaza, larger than a football field, will fill the central panel of the Mall from tree line to tree line.
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The WWII Memorial will place a memorial to war on the Mall's east-west axis historically dedicated to Constitutional principles and ideals. The design's gigantic granite enclosure will alter the historic L'Enfant and McMillan concept of the Mall as "public walks" and parkland. It will destroy a portion of the historic Lincoln Memorial grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., thus severing the connection between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument.
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The memorial will include 56 seventeen-foot-high granite pillars on top of the six-foot-high walls that enclose the plaza,
a nine-foot-high "wall of gold stars" at the western end, and two 43-foot-high triumphal arches at the north and south entrances |
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