In a segment immediately thereafter, MSNBC anchor Brian Williams called for the installation to be made permanent.
“There are memorials along that mall to the people who have fought our wars,” he said, adding he hoped the International Space Station would capture the lights from space Tuesday evening as it passed over the East Coast. “Sadly, the only thing that we can predict tonight is that there will be more lights. We have lost 100,000 since December. So perhaps, in a gesture visible from space, this is the new Washington memorial, right there in front of our eyes.
Incoming Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, incoming US First Lady Jill Biden, and President-elect Joe Biden watch as a COVID-19 Memorial is lit at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Jan. 19, 2021 to honor the lives of those lost to the coronavirus.He added that the country should keep and protect the lights along the reflecting pond, while maintaining them in a standardized way.
“It’s a bold statement, it is a reflecting pool after all,” he said. “It does bookend the Washington experience from generations of Americans. Between Abe Lincoln on his chair, Dr. King — the invisible actor looking over that reflecting pool every night — and the city’s founder, George Washington, at the other end.
Stupid, virus theory never proven, just used as a weapon against the people! MUST RESIST THIS COMMUMNIST TYRANY!!! :(
No, US death rate less than 0.0% in 2020, only a pandemic for media /pols, in reality like flu, so deadly that in comparison to,last 20 years, hardly stands out
No thanks. The insects (mainly gnats) are already horrible throughout the National Mall, wreaking havoc for us who regularly exercise there. Have at another location. Sincerely, DC Native.
Biden, healer in chief!
It should be as an acknowledgment to those that died and a visual history lesson about how a President and this administration failed our country. It is part of the history of our Nation., The good and the bad cant be changed it has already happened.
It should
It's tragic momentum will sadly require extentions.
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