Honoring lives lost

I went to check out a temporary art installation in downtown Washington: 20 acres covered in white flags (one for each life lost to COVID in the US -- over 685,000 now).  

Numbers like these are too staggering to comprehend -- until the visuals are laid out in front of you. Then it almost becomes overwhelming.  From a distance, it looked like a snow covered field; then as we walked closer, the mass of white rendered into its individual flags, many of them with words supplied by friends or family members to remember their loved ones.  There are 3.8 miles of pathways through the field of flags, with benches on which to sit and reflect. 

On that beautiful autumn day, I saw many tearful people, sitting near their loved one's flag.  It's still incomprehensible to me how that situation was allowed to get out of hand and, even more so, how many Americans (Trumpists) still do not believe this is even true...

a few more pix in extras.