Fayetteville, Arkansas–based Marlon Blackwell Architectshas been selected to design the National Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
According to the non-profit GWOT Memorial Foundation, the planned project commemorates “U.S. actions and operations following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, through the present day.”The foundation—whose executive leadership includes former President George W. Bush as honorary chairman—was established in 2015to construct a memorial that would “honor, heal, empower, unite.” Following lobbying efforts by GWOT, in 2017 Congress approved a plan to aid the memorial’s construction by waiving the requirement (codified in the 1994 Commemorative Works Act amendments) that such monuments not be built on the National Mall Reserve until at least one decade after a major conflict has ended.
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