The issue focused on the history of the monument and the National Park Service's Office of American Archeology's (NAAS) decision to label the monument in a statement on its website. The monument, written in 1971 by Rep. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ill.), had been completed and officially announced by the U.S. Senate in late November 2013. On June 28, that year, the Park Service announced it would now celebrate the renaming of the World War II-era monument by having the Lincoln