Caption: Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Senior Vice President Ken Weas, seated right, PVA Publications Editor Tom Fjerstad, seated left, and Express Scripts Senior Director Thomas Jenkins, standing behind, prepare to lay a wreath at the
National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., last Veterans Day, Nov.
The Commission was also responsible for designing and constructing the
national World War II Memorial on the Capitol Mall in Washington, D.C., and for maintaining seven nonfederal memorials with funds provided by those memorials' sponsors.
Pearson Airport in Toronto; Cosentini Lighting Design's 111 South Wacker Drive office tower in Chicago; Scott Kester's lighting design for the Frisson, a new restaurant in San Francisco; Tillotson Design Associates lighting design for Mixed Greens Gallery in Manhattan, designed by Leven Betts; Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design's
National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC; Tanteri + Associates lighting design for Peter Marino + Associates Chanel Ginza in Tokyo, will all receive Lumen Awards of Merit.
AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings Inc (NYSE: AAI), will honour a group of South Mississippi World War II Veterans by chartering a flight for them from Gulfport, Miss, and Jackson, Miss, to Washington, DC, to visit the
National World War II Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
More information on the
National World War II Memorial and projects and sites mentioned in the article is available online:
The firm has created and managed many high-profile, national fundraising campaigns, including The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation,
National World War II Memorial, John F.
The war's veterans will also be honored Memorial Day weekend with the opening of the long-awaited
National World War II Memorial on the National Mall.
His visit to the cemetery was part of Memorial Day activities, which included the dedication of the
National World War II Memorial on the Washington Mall on Saturday.
Fewer than four million of the 16 million service members who served in the war were alive to witness the dedication of the
National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., on May 29.
Bush, leading the country in dedicating the
National World War II Memorial, said Saturday that World War II veterans ''saved their country and thereby saved the liberty of mankind.''
The New
National World War II Memorial pictured on our cover (rendered by artist Joe McKendry) includes the "Freedom Wall" of 4,000 hand-crafted gold-plated stars, a tribute to the more than 400,000 Americans who died in World War II,
The Associated Press has compiled 170 photo- graphs to be released this month in Memories of World War II, coinciding with the dedication of the
National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., on May 31.