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Washington Post on 2018-01-29 04:12

Families have left cremated remains at the Vietnam Wall for decades. Now officials want them to stop.

As more Vietnam veterans die, the National Park Service says, it can’t keep storing the ashes, and the agency is telling people to stop bringing them.

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