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(56,582 posts) Tue May 1, 2012, 06:14 AM May 2012

The creepy "National Republican Victory Monument" -- a pic [View all]

I don't normally walk down E Street NE, but I was the other day and noticed this in the courtyard of the National Republican Senate Committee.

That's the "Eternal Flame of Freedom" on the left there. You may commence vomiting.

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The creepy "National Republican Victory Monument" -- a pic [View all] Recursion May 2012 OP

Looks like one of those memorial parks for "cremains." Or maybe the inside Mist May 2012 #1

A columbarium is the proper term, I believe Generic Other May 2012 #9

ROFL! LeftofObama May 2012 #2

All the uplift of an inner courtyard of a small, private prison. leveymg May 2012 #3

Creepier still is the "victory" it commemorates: JHB May 2012 #4

Considering that ... surrealAmerican May 2012 #6

That's no "Eternal Flame of Freedom"... MrScorpio May 2012 #5

Just this once, I see no objection to graffiti and street art. nt eppur_se_muova May 2012 #7

I thought it looked familiar: LeftinOH May 2012 #8

Needs a trough running around n2doc May 2012 #10

That is eerie and demented. sinkingfeeling May 2012 #11