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A woman who did wish to be identified, tells a worker where top place sand bags at the restaurant Red Curry in Old Town Alexandria, Va, Friday, August 26, 2011. In a city which saw severe flooding during Hurricane Isabel in 2002, business owners and residents are wasting no time preparing for Hurricane Irene. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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The Washington Monument is pictured at right as a detail of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is seen ahead of its originally scheduled August dedication in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Visitors walk through the large stone mountain "gates" to enter the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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The sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. is seen Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, the day that the memorial, the last memorial to be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., officially opened to the public. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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"My children aren't going to get this in a classroom," said Lola Martin, left, of Queens, N.Y., of the history evoked by the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. Here she poses for a picture at the memorial with Ron Smith of Washington, D.C. on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, the day the memorial opened to the public. "This memorial is my ancestors' blood," said Smith. The two are members of brother and sister social fellowships, Groove Phi Groove and Swing Phi Swing, respectively, and just met for the first time but decided to come down to the memorial together. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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As storm clouds hang in the sky above following a downpour of rain, tourists arrive to visit the newly built Martin Luther KIng Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., Thursday, August 25, 2011. Though a lot of rain fell today, this storm is not believed to be connected to the approaching Hurricane Irene. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A woman holds the brochure describing the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial as she tours the site on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, the day the memorial officially opened to the public. The dedication takes place this Sunday, Aug. 28, the 40th anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Clouds gather over the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. The memorial's dedication ceremony has been postponed due to the impending arrival of Hurrican Irene. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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A model of the Martin Luther King Memorial is set up during a press conference of the The Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation to launch the "Kids for King...Share Your Dream...Build the Dream" program at the Tidal Basin in NW Washington DC, Monday, August 22, 2005. The program commemorates the historic 1963 March on Washington. Youth between first and 12th grades will be asked to help build a memorial to Dr. King on the National Mall by writing a short essay about their dream for a better America, with 50 youths selected during a random drawing flown to DC along with two parents for the memorial's groundbreaking ceremony in the Fall of 2006. The MLK Memorial will be built along the Tidal Basin. ( Astrid Riecken / The Washington Times )

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Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., addresses an impromptu gathering at her father's memorial in Washington, Friday August 26, 2011. The memorial's dedication has been postponed due to Hurricane Irene's impending arrival. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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A worker packs-up a portion of the 30,000 chairs at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. The memorial's dedication ceremony has been postponed due to the impending arrival of Hurrican Irene. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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** FILE ** The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on the Mall. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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This image released by the National Park Service shows Steve Lorenzetti, Deputy Superintendent of Planning, left, and Robert A. Vogel, Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks conferring with civil engineer Ned Wallace, right, inside the Washington Monument Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, amid debris that fell to the floor after a 5.8 magnitude struck the Washington area on Aug. 23. (AP Photo/National Park Service)