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“My dad and I first started going to DC when I was about 14 years old, we went every since then. We only missed a few years in between. We love walking along the National Mall talking about the previous year and how we might have missed something...

I had just watched March On. It was wonderful, awesome. I loved it. I remember taking [my daughter, Samantha, and the rest of my immediate family] to the National Mall in August 2001, a month before 9/11. It was very hot and very humid and Samantha

My favorite time to visit the National Mall is in the evening when the monuments and buildings are highlighted in flood lights. -Ragnar Thoresen

“For me, America’s Front Yard represents our Nation’s strength of character in every citizen. One may ponder as they walk past the grandeur marked by the Smithsonian Institution and its various museums as mere buildings of stone, brick, or marble. Y

On May 16, 2019 just before midnight, after a lovely evening in Georgetown celebrating Norway's Constitution Day, my boyfriend Jon surprised me with a visit to the Jefferson Memorial. Without me knowing where we were going or why, he had the Uber dr

“When I was 10 years old, my family decided to move to Maryland. I was leaving loved ones, friends, and classmates behind for a place I had never traveled to before. Naturally I was nervous about my unforeseen future and the obvious troubling concer

“In the fall of 2017, friends of mine from when I worked in South Korea only a few years prior came to visit me in Washington, D.C. Some of them were American citizens that had never been to the East Coast, others were from foreign countries and had

“I grew up in Rhode Island. My first visit to Washington DC was when I was about 6 or 7 years old with my family. We stayed in Arlington and drove in to see all the sights including obviously the National Mall. I believe I may have known then that

“In 1966 two friends and I had graduated from business school in Salina, Kansas. The Navy Department came and recruited us, and others to come and work in Washington, D.C. We worked at Main Navy, a building built temporarily in WW II. ...My mother

“I fell in love with the blossoming cherry trees during my first springtime visit to the Tidal Basin many years ago, and I strive to visit every year at that time. Sheltered under the lush canopy, hugged by Nature, showered with millions of pink an

"Hi, I lived in Washington DC for 12 years. During that time our family visited the Mall countless times. When it came time for me to begin my next novel, I decided to plunge into historical fiction. But I didn't know where to set my love story cove

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Under Water: The National Mall's Tidal Basin Faces A Rising Threat

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Preserving a Place of Strength, Comfort and Inspiration

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Private Donations Throughout History Helped Build the Washington Monument and Memorials on the National Mall

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