In September of 2021 artist SUZANNE BRENNAN FIRSTENBERG created "In America: Remember" on the National Mall in Washington DC. By planting white flags she highlighted the devastation of COVID 19 -- one flag for each life lost. As the artist states "(This) is an effort to reclaim the dignity of 700,000 people who have become reduced to a single number, a number too large to fathom..." (According to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection all deaths involving COVID 19 reached 775,668 as of November 26, 2021.)