An Inflated, Ossified Memorial

By CATESBY LEIGH September 4, 2008; Page D7 Washington In some ways, the design for a $120 million memorial to Martin Luther King Jr., which will occupy a four-acre site along the Tidal Basin, shares the horizontal, landscape orientation of the nearby Vietnam Veterans and Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorials. Like them, the King memorial, scheduled for completion in 2010, will be text-laden, with an Inscription... [read full story]