The long-awaited World War II memorial being installed on the Mall in Washington, D.C. is nearly complete, and Benjamin Forgey is impressed with its solemn design and “abiding sense of place.” The design may be a bit classically stiff, but it uses the massive space well, and “though the memorial does partially block a pedestrian’s passage on the long walk between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, it is a pause with a big payoff: the memorial itself.”