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October 7, 2021 | Suzanne Pollak

Bethesda Artist’s ‘America: Remember’ Display Commemorates Those Who Died from COVID-19

On Sept. 16, when Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg finished setting up her display by the Washington Monument of one flag for each American felled by COVID-19, she oversaw the planting of 666,600 small white flags. On Wednesday, Firstenberg and volunteers pulled up 701,000 flags, the most up-to-date number of deaths. When the Bethesda resident began imagining […]

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