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Because of the partial government shutdown, most of the monumental core in Washington, D.C. is not being maintained.
That means that icons like the Lincoln Memorial and its Reflecting Pool look a little less majestic.
But, today, a South Carolina man, took matters into his own hands and made news by doing what the government won’t do.
As The Washington Post reports, Chris Cox, 45, bought an old lawn mower and a leaf blower from a local mower parts dealer and got to work, making sure the lawn was nice and kept and some fallen tree limbs were moved out of the way. His selfless act was even mentioned in a lawn care magazine called the Weed Eaters Central.
“These are our memorials. Do they think that we’re just going to let them go to hell? No,” Coxtold All-News 99.1. “If they shut down our memorials, we’re still going to take the trash out, we’re going to clean the windows, we’re going to cut the grass, we’re going to pull the weeds, we’re going to do the tree work.”
Cox told the Post that he was not taking a political position by keeping up public lands.
Awesome!!
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