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While the national memorial goes through a lengthy planning and fundraising process, veterans are working with state and local governments to build smaller monuments around the country.
The federal government has authorized a national memorial to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While groundbreaking for that monument in Washington, D.C. is still years away, a group of Connecticut veterans just unveiled their memorial in Danbury.