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‘A memorial to humanity’: Washington DC’s monumental first world war sculpture
The creator of a 60ft-long memorial to the Americans who served in the first world hopes it serves as a cautionary tale
The creator of a 60ft-long bronze sculpture at the heart of the World War I Memorial in Washington DC is a soldier of peace.
“You will not find anyone else who hates war as much as I do,” says the sculptor Sabin Howard, who unveiled his modern masterpiece earlier this month. “The people that are caught in war are innocent bystanders. They are the ones that lose their homes, their families, their mothers, their children and there’s no like, ‘Oh well, we’ll fix your life.’”
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