The National Mall in Washington, D.C., has long been a place of monumental memorialization, from permanent fixtures such as the Washington Monument and the Vietnam ... generations to understand.

It wasn’t until the early 1830s that serious planning commenced for the Washington Monument, Washington’s first major memorial ... McMillan led the Senate Park Commission and breathed life ...

When they encountered the fence around the WWII monument ... memorial will be closed and the fountain will be off, that the Mall is legally closed," Johnson told The Washington Post on Monday ...