Commission consideration of a request to approve a memorial will include, but not be limited to, evaluation of following criteria: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
(a) How long has it been since the Requests made during or immediately
events to be honored took place? after an event are not generally
subject to approval. The Commission
will not approve a memorial until
at least 10 years after the
officially designated end of the
event. It should be noted that this
is the same period of time made
applicable to the establishment of
memorials in the District of
Columbia and its environs by the
Commemorative Works Act.(b) How will the perpetual Available adequate funding or other
maintenance of the memorial be specific arrangements addressing
funded? perpetual care are a prerequisite
to any approval.(c) Has the host nation consented? Host nation approval is required.(d) Is an overseas site In many circumstances a memorial
appropriate for the proposed located within the United States
permanent memorial? will be more appropriate.(e) Is the proposed memorial Memorials to elements smaller than a
intended to honor an individual division or comparable unit or to
or small unit? an individual will not be approved
unless the services of such unit or
individual clearly were of such
distinguished character as to
warrant a separate memorial.(f) Is the memorial historically Representations should be supported
accurate? by objective authorities.(g) Is the proposed memorial As a general rule, memorials should
intended to honor an be erected to organizations rather
organizational element of the than to troops from a particular
American Armed Forces rather than locality of the United States.
soldiers from a geographical area
of the United States?(h) Does the contribution of the The commemoration should normally be
element to be honored warrant a through a memorial that would have
separate memorial? the affect of honoring all of the
American Armed Forces personnel who
participated rather than a select
segment of the organizational
participants.------------------------------------------------------------------------