Interviews

Gregory Doss is a United States Air Force Veteran who served from June 2001 to June 2007 and separated honorably as a Staff Sergeant before continuing his service in the Global War on Terrorism as a contractor with the United States Marine Corps. Gregory’s father is a Vietnam Veteran who served in the U.S. Marine […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

29 May 2017 Executive director Andrew J. Brennan sat down with Fox News to discuss the importance of our nation’s war memorials and what we’re doing to bring a national GWOT memorial to D.C. Watch the full interview here.

02 April 2017 Andrew Brennan, a young former Army pilot, got the idea while surrounded by bikers. The Rolling Thunder motorcycle group roared through Albuquerque, New Mexico, while Brennan was there in 2014. Vietnam War veterans swirled around him, on their way to Washington, D.C., on an annual pilgrimage to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. […]

29 March 2017 The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the longest ever fought by the US. Although major ground combat is over in a very real sense the wars have not yet ended. Accepted wisdom would say it is too soon to think about a national memorial honoring veterans of those wars but that […]

28 March 2017 How do you build a monument honoring those who fought in a war that’s still going on? That’s the problem facing veterans behind the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation, which on Tuesday announced legislation that could speed the process along. A group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans hopes to raise up to $35 million […]