NRO Weekend dedicates its site to the fireman, policemen, and emergency workers lost on September 11.
Nothing is too good for the United States capital.
Nowadays, it seems, nothing is too mediocre, so far as memorials are concerned. Hence the dismal episode of the site selection and design for the World War II Memorial, which is now certain to be built on the main axis of the Mall in Washington, thanks to legislation which President Bush will sign, possibly on Memorial Day. In this controversy, Congress was guided not by any architectural vision of the kind that inspired Sen. McMillan and his contemporaries, but by the political clout of veterans' groups. The legislation nullifies the lawsuit, along with all outstanding regulatory issues. Nor were these problems related to the allegedly clandestine maneuvers employed by the Commission of Fine Arts and other review boards in approving the site, because due process was in fact observed.