Capitol Lens: Remembrance Day

By Douglas Graham

Posted April 23, 2012 at 4:30pm

From left: Speaker John Boehner, Holocaust survivor Helen Lebowitz Goldkind and Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Per Westerberg light a candle during the national commemoration of the Days of Remembrance in the Capitol Rotunda last week.

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