(Editor’s Note: Washington is home to countless monuments, memorials and statues. Every Monday, DCist will feature one of the more obscure, unknown or off-the-beaten path sites around the city. We’ll hit the big memorials too, but we find that smaller monuments, like to Taras Shevchenko, James Buchanan and Temperance, tend to be more interesting.)

Journalists have faced untold dangers and continue to risk their lives around the world to cover the news. And the Freedom Forum’s Journalists Memorial remembers those who lost their lives to deliver the news to us. And with the situation in Iraq particularly dicey, it’s good to take time out to remember those foreign correspondents who report from dangerous lands.