Photo: Over 650,000 white flags commemorate pandemic’s toll on the U.S.

As the number of Americans who have died of COVID-19 surpasses the U.S. death toll of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, a new art installation in Washington commemorates those lost.

Marine One flies over the ‘In America: Remember’ public art installation near the Washington Monument. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

The installation, a concept by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, includes more than 650,000 small white flags, some with personal messages to those who have died, planted across 20 acres of the National Mall.

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