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6/14/2014

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Somewhat haphazardly, Washington's memorial landscape narrates the history of the American people.  Below are two (very incomplete) lists of subjects that are and are not commemorated on and around the National Mall:

30 Subjects commemorated on the National Mall:

Albert Einstein
American Veterans Disabled for Life
Boy Scouts of America
Captain Nathan Hale
Christopher Columbus
Commodore John Paul Jones
Cuban-American Friendship
Declaration of Independence
General George Meade
General José Artigas
General Simon Boulevar
General Ulysses S. Grant
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Horticulturalist John Saul
Japanese American Patriotism in WWII
John Ericsson - Military Engineer
Korean War
Martin Luther King Jr.
President Eisenhower
President Franklin D Roosevelt
President Garfield
President Jefferson
President Lincoln
President Washington
Professor Joseph Henry
U.S. Army - Second Division
U.S. Civil War Sailors
Vietnam War
World War I
World War II

30 Subjects not commemorated on the National Mall:

Abolition of Slavery
American Nobel Laureates
Apollo Program
Apple/The Personal Computer
AT&T's Bell Labs 
The Barbary Wars
Booker T. Washington
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frederick Law Olmsted
George Eastman/Kodak
Henry Ford/The Model T
Invention of Lasers
Invention of Oil Drilling
Invention of Television
Invention of the Internet
Invention of the Light Bulb
Invention of the Telephone
Jackie Robinson
James Watson
John Muir
Marian Anderson
Mark Twain
Native Americans…anything at all about Native Americans
The Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Rachel Carson
Robert Oppenheimer/Manhattan Project
Samuel Morse
Skylab
Thurgood Marshall
Union-Pacific Railroad

Does the mall get it right? What other subjects are missing?  Who/what else should be included in the Mall's version of the American story?  
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