WASHINGTON -The government shutdown may have caused many Park Service workers to be furloughed but one man from South Carolina armed with a leafblower and a push mower is taking it upon himself to clean up Washington's memorials in their place.

  Chris Cox calls himself the Memorial Militia and he's been taking away trash, blowing away leaves and even using a chainsaw to clear branches from a path in the area of the National Mall near the Lincoln, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War Memorials.

  He carries the state flag of South Carolina as he works and wears a bright red t-shirt with South Carolina across the front.

 "Well the day the government shut down I was watching the news and they wouldn't stop talking about how vulnerable our monuments are, our  memorials, and that concerned me," said Cox, who is an artist and has been cleaning at the capitol for 8 days.

More at source: WBTM

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