IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY AND OUR COUNTRY.

That inscription, on the Liberty Memorial tower in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A., very simply describes the reason for the memorial itself. Just two weeks after the Armistice in November, 1918, a meeting of Kansas Citians brought forth the idea for the creation of a lasting monument to all men and women who served and dies in WW1. Following a funding drive that raised $2.5m in less than two weeks, a national architectural competition was held for monument designs by the American Institute of Architects and awarded to architect H. Van Buren Magonigle. The completed Liberty Memorial opened on November 11, (Armistice Day) 1926. The "NEW" Liberty Memorial was completely refurbished in 2002.


Learn about the memorial: http://www.libertymemorialmuseum.org