World War I Memorial Foundation Benefit Reception on Nov. 9
October 31, 2009 02:19 PM
| Events, Memorial Foundation
The event will feature an exhibit of photographs of the last survivors of the Great War by foundation trustee and noted photographer David DeJonge of Grand Rapids, Mich. DeJonge spent two years traveling around the world finding and photographing the last surviving veterans. The photographs will be on public view at Woodrow Wilson House Nov. 5-12.
Warner said, “As a sailor in the Navy during the last year of World War II, and the son of a World War I veteran, I am delighted to lend my support to the foundation’s work to ensure that an appropriate memorial will soon represent the contributions of all Americans who fought -- with the support of those on the home-front -- during World War I to defend the cause of freedom.”
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Frank Buckles presented with check for World War I Memorial Foundation
September 12, 2009 05:13 PM
| Frank Buckles, Memorial Foundation
America’s last surviving World War I veteran, 108-year-old Frank Buckles, was presented with a $1350 check for the World War I Memorial Foundation on Saturday, September 5, 2009, at his farm in Charles Town, West Virginia. Buckles is the honorary chairman of the foundation.
Justin Rojek, head of a Montgomery, Ala., Sons of the American Revolution chapter, traveled to Buckles’s Gap View Farm for the Labor Day weekend event. The chapter raised the funds to support Mr. Buckles’s cause at a Memorial Day service they sponsored.
Buckles visited the D.C. War Memorial in 2008. He called for long-delayed restoration of the memorial, now planned by the National Park Service, and for its re-dedication as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial.
Justin Rojek, head of a Montgomery, Ala., Sons of the American Revolution chapter, traveled to Buckles’s Gap View Farm for the Labor Day weekend event. The chapter raised the funds to support Mr. Buckles’s cause at a Memorial Day service they sponsored.
Buckles visited the D.C. War Memorial in 2008. He called for long-delayed restoration of the memorial, now planned by the National Park Service, and for its re-dedication as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial.
National World War I Memorial Foundation formed
August 1, 2008 08:57 PM
| Memorial Foundation
In August 2008, friends of the District of Columbia War Memorial from around the country incorporated the World War I Memorial Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation whose mission is to to raise funds for the restoration of the DC War Memorial, and to sponsor and raise funds for the re-dedication of that site as a National and District of Columbia World War I Memorial. The honorary chairman of the Foundation is Frank Buckles of West Virginia, the 107-year-old last surviving American veteran of World War I. The Foundation's president is David DeJonge, a Michigan photographer who for the past several years has traveled the world photographing the last survivors of the "Great War."
