War Veterans React to WWII Memorial

By Art Silverman

Published May 28, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Veterans tour the National World War II Memorial.

NPR's Art Silverman talks to war veterans gathering at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The memorial will be dedicated in an official ceremony on Saturday.

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Art Silverman has been with NPR since 1978. He came to NPR after working for six years at a daily newspaper in Claremont, New Hampshire.

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