On December 20 at 11:30 a.m., Sen. Rob Portman and other noted guests will convene at the Circle of Remembrance at the World War II Memorial for the unveiling of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt D-Day Prayer plaque.
WHO:
* Sen. Rob Portman
* Lt. Gen. Mick Kicklighter, USA (Ret.), board member of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial
* Robert A. Peck, board member of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial and Principal and Government + Defense Practice Area Leader, Gensler
* Kenneth J. Terry, Board member of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial and Vice President and Operations Manager, Grunley Construction Company, Inc.
* Jeff Reinbold, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks
* Roy Jach, senior project manager, Grunley Construction Company, Inc.
* Robert Johnson, principal, OEHME, VAN SWEDEN (OvS) Landscape Architecture
WHAT:
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer was not included on the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. when it was completed and dedicated in 2004. In 2014, President Barack Obama signed into law the World War II Memorial Prayer Act (Public Law 113-123) directing that the prayer be added to the World War II Memorial. Sen. Robert Portman introduced the bipartisan legislation, the World War II Memorial Prayer Act, which directed the Secretary of the Interior to install a plaque at or near the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. inscribed with the words of the prayer that President Roosevelt shared with the nation on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The legislation stipulated that no federal funds could be used to implement this directive. Therefore, Friends took on the responsibility of designing and funding the project.
A $2 million grant by Lilly Endowment Inc. allowed Friends to complete this effort, begun in 2015, to add President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s D-Day Pra ...More...
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