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Keeping the memory of WWI alive with plans for a national memorial



Published on Jan 27, 2016
PBS News Hour

Millions of Americans who served during the Great War may soon be memorialized in the nation’s capital. The winning design by 25-year-old architect Joe Weishaar was selected from more than 360 proposals for the National World War I Memorial in Washington. Jeffrey Brown reports.

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