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And we return to our American stories.

Up next, a story from someone you might not know,

but whose work you'll certainly see in our nation's capital soon, sculptor Sabin Howard. Sabin has created our capital's first

monument to World War I. It's absolutely beautiful and tells a remarkable story. Here's Sabin himself

to tell us about his muses

and how he approached the creation of the monument.

Take it away, Saban.

I knew virtually nothing about World War I.

It is not something taught in our school system

because it's usurped by like the Great Depression and then World War II.

And I mean, honestly, we didn't, we lost 116,000 men.

And you compare that to like Europe where you lose full villages, it's complete decimation.

It was a punch on a nose for this country.

But after getting, you know, into the project in the first nine months, I was like fascinated.

And here's the thing.

I learned early on that the way to portray these people that had been in this war was not to read history books because the history books

spoke more about what the governments did and how they proceeded forward against each other

so what i did read a little bit to understand more but that led me to looking at a lot of images of men getting

on trains with their fiancés and their families waving goodbye to them and then seeing men on

the front and seeing how young they were. And I came to this realization that had hundreds of

people coming at me telling me, okay,

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