#dc war memorial

In 2004 @npr’s Noah Adams recorded his visit to one of the National Mall’s lesser-known monuments, the District of Columbia War Memorial.

“…We call these World War I memorials, but that is only a corrective note of history. There was not to be another conflict of such scale. The inscription on the base of this white marble structure says only ‘The Great War to Save Civilization.’”

Image: District of Columbia War Memorial. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images.