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To tell the truth, I had wondered whether the reports I had read were exaggerated. Writer after writer wrote of the emotion it aroused when they saw it. Newscasters commented about its power to evoke feelings in thousands of people. A minister friend told me how he wept openly in its presence.

By now throngs had made their way to this unusual serpentine Washington monument, so unlike those dedicated to Jefferson or Lincoln. And the day came - in gray February - when I, too, approached the now fabled monument with a mixture of curiosity and wonder and skepticism.