FROM QUARRY TO GLORY COLORADANS TAKE PRIDE IN CREATING NEXT TOMB OF THE UNKNOWNS

From: Rocky Mountain News | Date: July 10, 2003| Author: James B. Meadow ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS | Copyright information

In the damp, cool darkness of a vast subterranean cathedral that was painted with an impasto of shadows and emotions, a floodlit 260- ton white wall of marble began an eerily slow descent toward a gravel cushion, moving like a tired head toward a pillow as 100 unblinking eyes waited to see if they were watching a new beginning for one of America's most cherished icons.

"Oh, geez, it's spectacular," Rex Loesby said moments later as he clambered up a ladder and began inspecting the 20-fo...

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