Mounds Of Trash Take The Bloom Off Cherry Blossom Festival

'Why Don't They Take The Trash Away?'
Every trash receptacle at the National Mall was piled with garbage. Quite a public relations faux pas. Your tax dollars at work!
Every trash receptacle at the National Mall was piled with garbage. Quite a public relations faux pas. Your tax dollars at work!

A German au pair in a green sundress stopped across the street from the Washington Monument on her way to the cherry blossoms Sunday and posed for a photograph with the garbage.

“Why don’t they take the trash away?” asked another au pair, Alexandra Ratzinger of Austria.

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