31 July 2017 By Matt Saintsing Currently, veterans of the Global War on Terror do not have a memorial honoring their service, and that of the wounded or fallen. A bill passed in the House on Friday would change that. For the memorial to be funded, planned, and built Congress needs to pass a bill […]
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31 July 2017 By Leo Shane III Before the House last Friday unanimously passed legislation to start the process of building a Global War on Terrorism memorial, a line of young war veterans took to the chamber floor to offer an emotional view of the importance of the work. Bill sponsor Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., […]
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29 July 2017 By Benny Johnson It took 50 years for our nation to build a memorial to the Greatest Generation. In that time, three-fourths of the veterans who fought in that war passed on. World War II veterans saw the memorial in the twilight of their lives, often by wheelchair. So, what of our […]
28 July 2017 House Passes Historic, Bipartisan Global War on Terrorism Memorial Act H.R. 873 exempts memorial from 1986 legislation and authorizes GWOTMF to lead organizing efforts WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the House of Representatives unanimously passed the Global War on Terrorism War Memorial Act, marking a significant turning point for the Global War […]
July 23, 2017 By Astead W. Herndon The National Mall is chock-full of monuments to America’s war dead: the fountains and pools of the World War II Memorial, the relentless, black wedge of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the haunting statuary of the Korean War Memorial. Yet to be memorialized, however, are the estimated 7,000 men […]
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21 JULY 2017 By George W. Casey Jr. George W. Casey Jr., a retired general, was chief of staff of the Army from 2007 to 2011 and the commander of coalition forces in Iraq from 2004 to 2007. He is an adviser to the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation. By building a National Global […]
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20 July 2017 By Tracie Mauriello, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Brennan, who flew Black Hawk helicopters over Afghanistan as an Army captain, got the idea for the memorial in 2014 on a trip to New Mexico. There he met a group of Vietnam veterans making their way across the country as part of Rolling Thunder, an annual […]
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17 July 2017 By Foon Rhee, editor at The Sacramento Bee Katharine Tripp doesn’t come from a military family, but after reading about West Point and visiting the Air Force Academy she wanted a different college experience. Then terrorists struck America on Sept. 11, 2001. “It definitely resonated with me,” Tripp says. It solidified her […]
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29 JUNE 2017 By Capt. Jon Batt, U.S. Army “My first experience with losing a brother-in-arms came in October of 2007, just months before I graduated from West Point. The Academy has a tradition of announcing the deaths of its alumni in the Cadet Mess Hall during mandatory lunch meals so that the Corps of […]
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Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, along with our founder Andrew J. Brennan, spoke with Fox 5 News over Memorial Day weekend on the secretary’s support for the Global War on Terror Memorial. Click here to see the full video interview […]
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Learn more about the GWOT Memorial and what we are doing to honor those who have served, and continue to serve, in this complex, multi-generational war.
