I missed your post yesterday Pip.. Put my bro on plane in PM but have been non stop for a week (actually more) & my time to read all has been limited.
BUT .. you are right .A most exellent suggestion. I have always wondered why we didn't have one. We need this type of memorial, I am supposing that the timing never seemed right (like a lot of other things). 15 years later we had the depression; then another war & another war & another.. easy to let the Older war fall between the cracks.
Did you see the movie (now out in video, I am guessing) A Very Long Engagement? set in WW1 - a love story; a war story.
I love how they have done each of the war memorials in DC so differently.. and also the various presidential memorials.. I especially like going to them at sunset of after dark. the lighting is part of the effect & you can almost feel the presence of the departed/memorialized in the stillness of the evening.
I haven't been to the WWII memorial but looking at pictures of it makes me whant to go.
I am going to work hqrd on getting people aware of the need to have such a monument for WWI.
I love Brief Encounter from that era I suppose rather a British film though