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26-Sep-2021

As far as the eye can see

Looking to the right of the Washington Monument, below/previous picture. The exhibit covers an extensive area on the National Mall.

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This art exhibition blankets the National Mall with more than 670,000 white flags, showing the magnitude of our loss as a nation while honoring each person who has died from COVID-19.

Everybody has seen the constantly rising number of people who have died of COVID in the US – 688,000 as of September 26 -- and I think to a certain extent people have become numb to it. But seeing it represented so graphically reminds that the victims weren’t numbers but real people with families and lives and hopes and dreams and that they’re all gone now, in so many instances unnecessarily.

The flags stretched almost as far as the eye can see in several directions, and the sheer enormity of it was overwhelming.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by PBase are decidedly
unsharp.

National Mall transformed, posted earlier:

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carol j. phipps07-Oct-2021 03:48
Outstanding detail of POV. V
Zoltán Balogh07-Oct-2021 03:00
What a sad sight it is! V
Julie Oldfield27-Sep-2021 22:44
That is overwhelming. V
Jeff Real27-Sep-2021 22:02
What a spectacular thing to see!
This is spectacular.
V
hayl27-Sep-2021 18:55
An overwhelming installation and it represents so many deaths, many needless. Heartbreaking.
Isabel Cutler27-Sep-2021 18:50
Horrendous!
François Fauchard27-Sep-2021 18:34
What a sad sight !
Nick Paoni27-Sep-2021 18:25
What a sad and sobering scene. A true national tragedy and some of it least was preventable. Unfortunately we still haven't come together completely to meet and defeat this virus, and that takes the sadness to the next level.
Pierre Martin27-Sep-2021 17:34
what can I say, discouraging!
bill friedlander27-Sep-2021 15:26
A mind-boggling display. V
Raymond27-Sep-2021 14:02
Wow, each one represents a mother, a father, brother, sister, a friend ... that each has left behind
Raymond27-Sep-2021 14:00
Unbelievable
Ursula Miller27-Sep-2021 13:43
Very impressing installation of art. Even to look at your pictures is overwhelming...! V
joseantonio27-Sep-2021 13:32
seems there were a lot of people there.V.
larose forest photos27-Sep-2021 13:31
Wow! This is a stark, sobering reminder of the loss of so many lives to this pandemic. You are right that over time one forgets that each loss represents a person with hopes, dreams, wishes, a life to live....