The Medal is given to service members who go above and beyond in the line of duty, putting the mission and others ahead of ...

They had three children together, one being Augustine ... boasted a large obelisk monument. In 1896, eleven years after the ...

The monument was built in 1932 to honor George Washington’s acquisition of 2,000 ... “I was just very happy about it being refinished and how good it looked,” he said. A piece of time ...

At the western end of the National Mall, the Washington Monument towers over our country’s capital. The 555-foot obelisk—a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramid-shaped top—was built to ...