It’s been a tough week for D.C.’s historic landmarks.
Beginning on Friday, a vandal armed with green paint splashed a path through the District, defacing monuments, statues, and churches along the way.
I was in San Francisco when I heard the news that paint had been thrown onto the statue at the Lincoln Memorial.
Pretty shocking stuff, but it turned out to not be an isolated incident. Over the weekend there was a steady drip of similar news from D.C.:
Green paint on a statue of Martin Luther and inside the historic Luther Place Memorial Church at Thomas Circle…
Green paint on a statue of Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian, outside the iconic Castle building…
And finally on Monday, green paint inside the National Cathedral, where a pipe organ and two chapels were splashed – one of which served as President Woodrow Wilson’s initial burial site.
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