Senator Warner received a letter from U.S. Secretary of the Department of Interior Ken Salazer today informing us that he will dispatch a National Park Service team to the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford to make a preliminary assessment of whether the site might be eligible for inclusion in the National Park Service system.

The letter was in response to earlier requests by Senator Warner and the Virginia congressional delegation urging Secretary Salazar to conduct such a study.  

There is no information on when that site visit might occur, but we would expect it to be timely. Secretary Salazar’s letter ends with an acknowledgement of the significance of the Memorial in “honoring those who contributed so significantly to the ending of World War II.”

Here is the letter: