[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 145 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.Con.Res.145
                                      Agreed to October 17, 2000        

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
             the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand


                          Concurrent Resolution

Whereas World War II is the defining event of the twentieth century for 
  the United States and its wartime allies;
Whereas in World War II, more than 16,000,000 American men and women 
  served in uniform in the Armed Forces, more than 400,000 of them gave 
  their lives, and more than 670,000 of them were wounded;
Whereas many millions more on the home front in the United States 
  organized and sacrificed to give unwavering support to those in 
  uniform;
Whereas fewer than 6,000,000 World War II veterans are surviving at the 
  end of the twentieth century, and the Nation mourns the passing of 
  more than 1,200 veterans each day;
Whereas Congress, in Public Law 103-422 (108 Stat. 4356) enacted in 
  1994, approved the location of a memorial to this epic era in an area 
  of the National Mall that includes the Rainbow Pool;
Whereas since 1995, the National World War II Memorial site and design 
  have been the subject of 19 public hearings that have resulted in an 
  endorsement from the State Historic Preservation Officer of the 
  District of Columbia, three endorsements from the District of 
  Columbia Historic Preservation Review Board, the endorsement of many 
  Members of Congress, and, most significantly, four approvals from the 
  Commission of Fine Arts and four approvals from the National Capital 
  Planning Commission (including the approvals of those Commissions for 
  the final architectural design);
Whereas on Veterans Day 1995, the President dedicated the approved site 
  at the Rainbow Pool on the National Mall as the site for the National 
  World War II Memorial; and
Whereas fundraising for the National World War II Memorial has been 
  enormously successful, garnering enthusiastic support from half a 
  million individual Americans, hundreds of corporations and 
  foundations, dozens of civic, fraternal, and professional 
  organizations, State legislatures, students in 1,100 schools, and 
  more than 450 veterans groups representing 11,000,000 veterans: Now, 
  therefore, be it

    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that--
        (1) it is appropriate for the United States to memorialize in 
    the Nation's Capital the triumph of democracy over tyranny in World 
    War II, the most important event of the twentieth century;
        (2) the will of the American people to memorialize that triumph 
    and all who labored to achieve it, and the decisions made on that 
    memorialization by the appointed bodies charged by law with 
    protecting the public's interests in the design, location, and 
    construction of memorials on the National Mall in the Nation's 
    Capital, should be fulfilled by the construction of the National 
    World War II Memorial, as designed, at the approved and dedicated 
    Rainbow Pool site on the National Mall; and
        (3) it is imperative that expeditious action be taken to 
    commence and complete the construction of the National World War II 
    Memorial so that the completed memorial will be dedicated while 
    Americans of the World War II generation are alive to receive the 
    national tribute embodied in that memorial, which they earned with 
    their sacrifice and achievement during the largest and most 
    devastating war the world has known.
  Attest:

                                               Secretary of the Senate.

  Attest:

                                 Clerk of the House of Representatives.