WASHINGTON — There’s only one point in the nation’s capital from which you can see the World War II Memorial, White House, the Jefferson Memorial and United States Capitol.
But for the past three years, Americans couldn’t go up in the Washington Monument. The iconic landmark’s elevator broke down about two to three times each week in 2016, prompting the National Park Service to close the structure for an elevator overhaul.
But Mike Litterst, spokesman for the park service’s National Mall and Memorial Parks, said “we’re open for good” when the monument stages its grand reopening on Thursday.
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6 comments:
Congresswoman AOC said that this monument needs to be torn down now since it is a monument to a slave owner. They are now going after the founding fathers because they owned slaves.
No slaves when it was built
It's a quaint obelisk but every time I have been there and the Statue of Liberty they both smelled like pee.
My Rushmore is next then the CIVIL WAR.
It's an out dated Free Mason phallic Obelisk and smells like pee up in there........yeah google that.
1:41 The monument was started with slave labor and then the Civil War started so it was stopped, then finished after the war. So yes, slaves did help build it.
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