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Washington Monument retakes its place as a living classroom

Nearly 1,000 days after it closed for repairs following an earthquake in the summer of 2011, the Washington Monument has reopened to the public. Nancy Cordes met a history teacher from Florida who was among the first to visit the monument, hoping to inspire his students to one day do the same.
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