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Motorcycles participate in the annual Rolling Thunder "Ride for Freedom" parade ahead of Memorial Day in Washington, Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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Motorcycles participate in the annual Rolling Thunder "Ride for Freedom" parade ahead of Memorial Day in Washington, Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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Motorcycles participate in the annual Rolling Thunder "Ride for Freedom" parade ahead of Memorial Day in Washington, Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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Motorcycles participate in the annual Rolling Thunder "Ride for Freedom" parade ahead of Memorial Day in Washington, Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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Motorcycles participate in the annual Rolling Thunder "Ride for Freedom" parade ahead of Memorial Day in Washington, Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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Motorcycles participate in the annual Rolling Thunder "Ride for Freedom" parade ahead of Memorial Day in Washington, Sunday, May 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Washington Times Reporter, Meredith Somers, holds her arms out as she is rides down interstate 66, during the annual Ride of the Patriots, in support of Rolling Thunder, in Fairfax, VA., Sunday, May 26, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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President Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day, May 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

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The National Building Museum will open two nine-hole, indoor miniature golf courses with one-of-a-kind holes created by leading local architects and designers on Memorial Day.

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"I can remember the first year I went, there were probably a few hundred to a thousand riders," says Scott Silverthorne, mayor of the City of Fairfax, of the Memorial Day event. "Today you can't even count them. They're all the way down Fairfax Boulevard [Route 29], probably 1 to 2 miles down the road." (Kenneth Lyons)