Sponsor
Cory Mills
Representative · R-FL
Representative · R-FL
The bill ensures a permanent, explicitly representational National Mall memorial to honor post-9/11 service and support families, but does so by narrowing design choices—creating risks of delays, legal challenges, and alienation of those who prefer less martial or more artistic approaches.
Post-9/11 service members, veterans, Gold Star families, and the general public gain a permanent National Mall memorial that formalizes national recognition and supports remembrance and healing.
The bill clarifies design expectations by favoring explicit, representational memorials, giving clearer guidance to the memorial foundation and federal review processes.
Rejecting the foundation's June 10, 2026 concept and prescribing design preferences could complicate or delay approval, prompt redesigns, and lead to litigation that slows the memorial's completion.
Emphasizing martial imagery and 'lethality' risks politicizing the memorial and alienating some veterans and members of the public who prefer contemplative or non‑martial commemoration.
The bill's prescriptive design preference narrows acceptable proposals and restricts artistic freedom for designers and artists involved in memorial concepts.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Records findings supporting creation of a National Mall memorial for post‑9/11 service members and criticizes a June 10, 2026 proposed design as too abstract.
Official title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the current design concept for the National Global War on Terrorism Memorial fails to adequately honor the profound sacrifice of members of the United States Armed Forces, and demanding a redesigned monument that clearly and unmistakably honors the valor, combat reality, and distinct sacrifice of post-9/11 veterans.
Introduced June 30, 2026 by Cory Mills · Last progress June 30, 2026
States official findings that support creating a national military memorial on the National Mall to honor service members who served after the 9/11 attacks, noting deployment and casualty figures. Expresses that commonly visited memorial designs that depict service explicitly are appropriate models and says the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation’s June 10, 2026 design concept is too abstract and landscape‑focused to suitably commemorate post‑9/11 veterans.