War by the numbers
The Wall is 493 feet 6 inches long. There are 58,256 names of dead Americans who never got old inscribed in the black granite that seems to point to the Washington monument a few hundred yards beyond it, on the mall, in Washington, D.C. It took the United States about 10 years to run up those casualties, although that's arguable. Full Story
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Editor's note: Tan a Amador Daigle will be reporting for Florida Weekly on the national primaries until the presidential candidates are chosen this summer. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
• On March 27, 1912, in Washington, D.C., the wife of President William Taft and the wife of the Japanese ambassador plant two Yoshina cherry trees near the Jefferson Memorial. After World War II, cuttings from the trees were sent back to Japan to restore the Tokyo collection that was decimated by American bombing attacks during the war. Full Story
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