I have been asking the National Park Service to open the building at the WWII Memorial to a limited and tasteful selection of interpretive and appropriate WWII books. Their response to date:  “…we are deliberate in our decision making process with respect to how to appropriately interpret any and all of our sites” and “…approval by the National Capital Planing Commission and the Fine Arts Commission will be required….”. This shed that you see above sits right on the Mall 100 yards from the Vietnam Memorial, one of the most elegant and beautiful Memorials to our veterans.  This is pretty “deliberate”…. and tasteful, eh?

I assume the National Park Service got together with the Fine Arts Commission to hire Jed Clampett as the architect.  Quite frankly, if this is what they might build at the WWII Memorial, I would stop asking….but the WWII Memorial building is already there (see below) and obviously wasn’t designed by them.  If you click on the picture below, you can see the wide variety of “tasteful interpretive material” they have chosen.  I am awestruck. This certainly negates the Mandarin class of NPS employees from any claim to good taste and any right to interpretation.  The least they could have done is hired a good carpenter!!!  I’ll throw in a gallon of paint!!!