Tourists Shocked but Try to Carry On ; Shooting Spurs Resolve and Reflection

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While the flag flew at half-staff above the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Thursday, tourists who had planned to visit the shuttered city landmark took the occasion to contemplate the tragic events that unfolded there the previous day.

"I really was the most surprised about how old the guy was and the fact that he should understand that it's not right to do stuff like that," said Anina Parker, 12, of Turtle Creek, Pa., referring to the shooting suspect James W. von Brunn, 88. She was disappointed that she could not visit the museum with her sixth-grade class. "It's unbelievable."

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Tourists Shocked but Try to Carry On ; Shooting Spurs Resolve and Reflection

The museum remained closed Thursday in honor of security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, who was fatally shot Wednesday - purportedly by Mr. von Brunn, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier. Mourners...

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