From the July 2nd Chicago Tribune "Coming home" by Elizabeth Owens-Schiele.
The World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, opened in 2004 and has drawn millions of visitors and a lot of veterans of the war as well. Many have also gotten Honor Flights to see it where all expenses are paid for them.
However, that still leaves many who are unable under any circumstance to go that far. With the youngest of the World War II veterans now in their 80s, that is not surprising.
However, a group of Chicago-area veterans are planning to bring a miniature version of it to the area so that the estimated 23,000 remaining veterans in the area will have a chance to see that.
The group, Pillars of Honor, have spent months and thousands of dollars to bring the original scale model to the area. They've had help from Friedrich St. Florian, the architect who designed it.
This coming Sunday, August 8th, it will be unveiled at the Des Plaines Public Library. It is about eight by eight feet in size. In months to come, Pillars of Honor hopes to show it within a 500-mile radius of Chicago.
An Honorable Thing for the Greatest Generation. --Cooter
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