This is lovely to read as well.
President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration will include a memorial honoring those who have died of COVID-19.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee told multiple media outlets Thursday that the ceremony will be held at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington, D.C., the evening before Biden is sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021.
It will be the “first-ever lighting around the reflecting pool to memorialize American lives lost,” the committee told The Associated Press.
Communities across the country are invited to join in the memorial event by lighting up buildings and ringing church bells at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 19 for a “national moment of unity and remembrance,” Axios reports.
The memorial will mark one of the few public remembrances of the more than 342,000 American lives lost to COVID-19 this year. CNN reported in October that there had been no communal mourning or national remembrance for coronavirus victims.
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