The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a national parks bill that would designate America’s National Churchill Museum in Missouri as a National Landmark. It was sponsored by U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri.
“This is an appropriate moment, I think, as we close this year, to honor the legacy of Winston Churchill, the legacy of Westminster College, and indeed, the legacy of the West,” Hawley said on the U.S. Senate floor.
The museum in Fulton commemorates the life of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who delivered one of his most famous speeches on March 5th, 1946 — less than a year after the end of World War II.
“Churchill called the speech the ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech, but as everyone listening to these words knows, it has become immortalized forever as the ‘Iron Curtain’ speech,” Hawley said. “The National Park Service will administer and maintain (America’s National Churchill Museum), so that generations of Americans and people of goodwill everywhere can come to that site and learn about Churchill’s speech and perhaps more fundamentally, learn about the principles of liberty and conscience and faith and moral virtue.”
The museum grounds include the Church of St. Mary the Virgin-Aldermanbury, the ruins of which were moved from England to Missouri and reassembled. It also includes a preserved section of the Berlin Wall.
Hawley’s bill next goes to the U.S. House.
The legislation would also designate Fort Ontario in New York as a National Park. The 19th Century site was used to house nearly a thousand Jewish refugees from Europe between 1944 and 1946.
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