The Greatest Generation Goes to War

The Greatest Generation liberated Europe and defended the Pacific.  They deserved a Memorial in our Nation's Capital. 

Episode Transcript

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We honor sixteen million Americans as wetake a bite out of history with ingles
markets. World War II was foughtfrom nineteen thirty nine to nineteen forty five.
Sixteen million Americans served in the warand four hundred and sixteen thousand,
eight hundred never came home. TheGreatest Generation needed their own memorial. The
first conversation about a World War Twomemorial began in nineteen eighty seven. A

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representative from Ohio introduced to build afundaed memorial in nineteen eighty seven, but
politics, money, and deband ofthe blueprints caused delay after delay and ground
did it break until the year twothousand. Congress funded the memorial up to
sixteen million dollars, but the entireproject cost one hundred and sixty four million.
Private donations were collected and spearheaded byBob Dole and Tom Hanks. The

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fountains represent the two theaters, Europeand the Pacific. There's also a curved
wall of four thousand gold stars,one for every one hundred Americans killed in
the war. The monument was finallydedicated on May twenty ninth, two thousand
and four, by President George W. Bush. This has been a bite
out of history with Ingles Markets m