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  1. Another Airlift Into History for WWII Veterans

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Oct 9, 2008

    From Minnesota and Georgia and Wisconsin and Kentucky, they came, arriving in tour buses whose baggage compartments were jammed with ranks of folded wheelchairs. Some now blind or hard of hearing or unsteady on their

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  2. Cleanup Projects Show Teens the Tools to Be Leaders

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Aug 1, 2008

    Armed with gardening gloves, rakes, shears and shovels, 55 young people in town for a convention converged on the Mall yesterday and left it looking a little less trash-strewn.

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  3. The Forgotten War Memorial

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook - Jul 5, 2008

    The D.C. War Memorial sits derelict in a grove of trees just south of West Potomac Park. Once the site of Marine Corps concerts commemorating our nation's fallen, the neglected Doric temple now seems little more than a

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  4. FEMA Drops Plan to Expand Downtown Flood Zone

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Jun 18, 2008

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has decided not to expand the flood zone for downtown Washington and the Mall, sparing the need for stricter insurance requirements and tougher building codes for private and

    Also tagged: washington dc, plan, zone, flood, fema, adrian fenty, drops, to, national mall, expand, downtown, u s army corps of engineers, quentin wilber, smithsonian s national museum, d c office of planning director harriet tregoning

  5. FEMA Drops Plans to Expand Downtown Flood Zone

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Jun 17, 2008

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has decided not to expand the flood zone for downtown Washington and the Mall, sparing the need for stricter insurance requirements and tougher building codes for private and

    Also tagged: washington dc, zone, flood, plans, fema, adrian fenty, drops, to, national mall, expand, downtown, u s army corps of engineers, quentin wilber, smithsonian s national museum, d c office of planning director harriet tregoning

  6. Makeover Of Mall Urged at Hearing

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - May 21, 2008

    The Mall is a national "disgrace," an overused, neglected and decrepit urban park in need of a total makeover that could cost $500 million, according to testimony at a congressional hearing yesterday.

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