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Show ji r 1 Tomb of : : j WASHINGTON iV At-, ' i i Urn ? $ m i 1 4 ,ts , f 1 P - lit 5 1 f lJ Xf 1 'A i 4 - i THE tomb of George Washington at beautiful Mount Vernon is a national na-tional shrine. It is more, even, than that It is a shrine of the whole world. Ships from every country in the world, when they sail up the Potomac past the tomb, dip their flags and toll their bells solemnly. And many of the biggest big-gest men on earth, kings, princes, Presidents, Pres-idents, warriors, statesmen, make pilgrimages pil-grimages to this shrine of all humanity human-ity and lay so many wreaths at the tomb of Washington that often the barred iron doors of it are hidden under them. |