Welcome to this month's news from the parks episode of the America's National Parks

podcast where we round up the latest happenings at America's Greatest Treasures.

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L.B. Be an Outsider. The National Park System jumped from

319 to 421 units in September.

Washington, D.C.'s new Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial officially opened as America's 420th unit of the National Park

System on September 18th, honoring Eisenhower's legacy as the World War II Supreme

Allied Commander and the nation's 34th President.

The memorial is designed by architect Frank Gehry and features three bronze statues of Eisenhower,

one as general with troops from the 101st Airborn the day before the

invasion of Normandy, another depicting him in the White House surrounded by advisors, and a third

portraying his boyhood.

Framing the entire memorial is a first of its

kind stainless steel woven tapestry by artist Thomas Osinski which depicts the

cliffs of the Normandy coastline. The memorial is set in a new four-acre public park on Independence Avenue,

across from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

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