Planners Raise Funds for Veterans Memorial

WASHINGTON - Soldiers returning from Iraq and other conflicts with missing limbs and shattered bodies will have a place of honor among the memorials of the nation's capital.

Planners are raising money for a new site — nestled among the tributes to fallen war heroes, from World War II, Korea and Vietnam — to salute roughly 3 million disabled veterans.

The American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial is expected to open in the next three to four years on an impressive two-acre site near the National Mall, just steps from the Capitol.

Authorized by federal legislation in 2000, the future memorial has taken on added meaning as Americans watch a new generation of disabled veterans return from war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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This is long overdue!