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W.Va. veteran's dream of WWI memorial in jeopardy
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A bill that Sen. Jay Rockefeller twice introduced to create a World War I memorial in Washington, D.C., no longer bears the name of the late Frank Buckles, the West Virginia veteran who pushed for it.
Nor does the version the Senate was considering Friday now call for a memorial on the National Mall.
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W.Va. veteran's dream of WWI memorial in jeopardy
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A bill that Sen. Jay Rockefeller twice introduced to create a World War I memorial in Washington, D.C., no longer bears the name of the late Frank Buckles, the West Virginia veteran who pushed for it.
Nor does the version the Senate was considering Friday now call for a memorial on the National Mall.
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