President Woodrow Wilson inspired the Czechs to establish a democracy. Now they strive to honor him by recreating an old statue.
For 13 years in the early decades of the 20th century, a larger-than-life bronze statue of Woodrow Wilson stood in front of the main train station in Prague as a reminder of the 28th U.S. president's role in creating an independent Czechoslovakia out of the wreckage of World War I.
The original bronze statue stood 14 feet tall, Beckmann said. It depicted Wilson standing in front of a chair, an American flag draped over his shoulders.
