DC to get new monument that pays tribute to WWI veterans
WASHINGTON (DC News Now)– Pershing Park will get another monument to honor Americans who served in World War I.
“A Soldier’s Journey” is a roughly 60-foot long bronze sculpture that depicts the story of a soldier from when he leaves home, and fin ally returns from the war.
“You don’t get this kind of public art anywhere,” said Joe Weishaar, the former DC architect who won a competition in 2016 to design the monument.
New York City sculptor Sabin Howard is putting together the project approved by the United States World War I Centennial Commission.
“I think if we can get people over there and interested in wanting to learn more about it, then sort their mission is accomplished,” said Weishaar.
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More than 4.2 million Americans served in the war, which also calimed the lives of 116,000 U.S. soldiers.
“I think the conditions that, that these people endured were something that we just can’t, we can’t understand today,” said Atlanta’s Brian Garrett, who learned of the new monument while at Pershing Park. “The chemical weapons that were used. the trench warfare.”
Pershing Park beat out two other locations around the District where “A Soldier’s Journey” will be told, having beat out Constitution Gardens, and the District of Columbia War Memorial
The new monument will be publicly unveiled September 13.
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