Calls grow for a national monument honoring America's Covid dead
New York (AFP) - Will the United States soon have a national monument commemorating the victims of Covid-19? Calls for a permanent memorial are increasing in the country with the largest pandemic death toll of more than 540,000. Since Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as president in January, and with America now in its second year of the pandemic, ceremonies honoring the dead -- mostly virtual -- have multiplied. Minute silences, flags at half mast, and places of contemplation: ephemeral moments of solemn respect have sprung up nearly everywhere. From 20,000 flags planted in the Mall in Washi......
Mar 21, 2021