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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Hi neighbors,
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Many of you experienced or volunteered for the In America instillation by RFK. See a note from the artist below if you are interested in the mall exhibit.
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">In mid-September, over 640,000 white flags will flutter on the National Mall, honoring each person whom we have lost to COVID-19. The
<i>In America: Remember </i>art exhibition will open on Friday, September 17th and end at sunset on October 3rd.
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">The enormous loss of life caused by this pandemic will render this the largest public participatory art exhibition on the National Mall since the AIDS quilt
and the first of this scale to be presented concurrently in the digital sphere. People across the country who will be unable to experience the art in person, may dedicate a flag to a loved one lost to COVID-19 by going on the website
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#0F54CC">InAmericaFlags.org
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">and completing a request. Visitors to the art will be welcome to dedicate flags for their loved ones who have died or to inscribe flags from digital requests, kindly writing flags
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">Volunteers will be essential to this immense undertaking. The most critical need is for volunteers who are experienced in working with the public to work at
the reception tables. While Ruppert Landscape will graciously donate manhours for the initial planting of flags, every day we will be adding flags to represent the mounting toll and scribing and planting flags from website requests. We have a particular need
for volunteers to help gather flags after the exhibition closes. Those volunteers are needed for October 4th, 5th and 6th.
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">Any help at any time will be most valuable. I welcome all to play a special role in this historic art event. Volunteers can sign up through the website noted
above or directly through this </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#0F54CC">link</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">, where detailed descriptions of volunteer roles are provided.
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">Thank you for considering this opportunity! Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg
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