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===Criticism of the design and style===
There were also aesthetic objections to the design. A critic from the ''[[Boston Herald]]'' described the monument as "vainglorious, demanding of attention and full of trite imagery."<ref>{{cite news |first=Thomas M. Jr. |last=Keane |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/655430941.html?did=655430941&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Jun+25%2C+2004&author=THOMAS+M.+KEANE+JR.&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=Op-Ed%3B+WW+II+Memorial+fails+both+past%2C+present |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131155439/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/655430941.html?did=655430941&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Jun+25,+2004&author=THOMAS+M.+KEANE+JR.&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=Op-Ed;+WW+II+Memorial+fails+both+past,+present |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |title=WWII Memorial fails both past, present |work=[[Boston Herald]] |page=27 |date=June 25, 2004}}</ref>
''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' argued that "this pompous style was also favored by [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]]"<ref>{{cite news |first=Inga |last=Saffron |authorlink=Inga Saffron |title=Monument to Democracy, The National World War II Memorial deserves its prominent location in Washington, as a tribute to heroes and a great cause |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |page=E01 |date=May 28, 2004}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' described it as "overbearing", "bombastic", and a "hodgepodge of cliche and Soviet-style pomposity" with "the emotional impact of a slab of granite".<ref name="wp2004">{{cite news |last=Fisher |first=Marc |
The monument was dismissed by one prominent architecture critic as "knee-jerk [[Historicism (art)|historicism]]".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ouroussoff |first1=Nicolai |author-link=Nicolai Ouroussoff |title=Get Me Rewrite: A New Monument to Press Freedom |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/arts/design/11arch.html?_r=1 |access-date=8 February 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=April 11, 2008 |archive-date=September 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911232257/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/arts/design/11arch.html?_r=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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