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Updated · Fox News · Sep 7

Congress Clears National Mall Medal of Honor Monument, Awaiting Trump Signature After March Senate Vote

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Updated · Fox News · Sep 7

Congress Clears National Mall Medal of Honor Monument, Awaiting Trump Signature After March Senate Vote

Q: What specific location near the Lincoln Memorial will the National Park Service choose for this historic tribute?

No exact spot has been publicly designated yet. The legislation places the National Medal of Honor monument within the Reserve on the National Mall, near the Lincoln Memorial, but the precise site will be chosen later through the National Park Service’s formal siting process. What is known is that Congress authorized a prominent location in the restricted core of the Mall, intended to link the monument symbolically to Abraham Lincoln, who created the Medal of Honor. Supporters and the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation have described it as a site where visitors would stand “in the shadow of Lincoln,” but that is descriptive rather than a legally fixed parcel. The National Park Service process, working with the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation, will determine the final location before design and construction move ahead. So for now, the most accurate answer is: near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, with the exact location still to be selected by the National Park Service.

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Aug. 31 House approval sent Sen. Jim Justice’s first Senate bill to President Trump, clearing a National Mall monument honoring Hershel “Woody” Williams and all Medal of Honor recipients.
A private talk with Sen. Martin Heinrich broke the impasse after the measure had been blocked in the Senate, allowing unanimous passage in March within minutes, Justice said.
Justice cast the episode as a rare workaround to Senate polarization, saying lawmakers often do not talk across party lines and that the chamber’s culture rewards stalemate.
The law would place the monument in a prominent site within the Reserve on the Mall, memorializing Williams — the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient until his 2022 death at 98.