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Dec 20, 2004
King of the Waterfront
When an event is really sad — and when it isn’t fixed to any particular spot on the U.S. mainland (think Challenger) — its memorial is often built in the District, aka the nation’s official boneyard. That certainly seems to be the case with the Titanic Memorial along the Washington Channel in Southwest, a forgotten monument to a forgotten age, dedicated to a catastrophe itself anything but forgotten. Unlike other local markers of tragedy,…