A Sea of Flags: Commemorating More Than 675,000 Americans Lost to COVID-19

Zoe Nassimoff of Argentina looks at white flags that are part of the artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's temporary art installation "In America: Remember" on September 17, 2021. Nassimoff's grandparent, who lived in Florida, died from COVID-19.

With the Washington Monument in the background, white flags are displayed on September 17, 2021.

An elevated view of visitors walking through the flags of the "In America: Remember" installation on September 19, 2021.

A person looks at white flags that are part of the artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's temporary installation "In America: Remember," in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., September 17, 2021.

The number of deaths in the United States due to COVID-19 has now passed 675,000—more than the number of Americans who died during the 1918 influenza pandemic. In Washington, D.C., a new temporary art installation named “In America: Remember,” commemorates the many Americans who have died of COVID-19 over the past year and a half. Hundreds of thousands of small white flags were planted on 20 acres of the National Mall, based on a concept by the artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg. Each flag is meant to represent a life lost, and many carry messages written to loved ones.

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