T-Shirt Sales Banned At D.C. Mall, Memorial

The National Park Service notified T-shirt vendors Monday that they can no longer sell the shirts on the national Mall and at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, effective Sunday.

Barring a last-minute court reprieve, T-shirts will no longer be available for purchase in federal parks in Washington. T-shirt vendors with valid District of Columbia permits can continue to sell on city streets.

Jan Scruggs, president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, said he welcomed the Park Service action.

“I believe we are seeing the beginning of the end of the memorial being used as a retail vending outlet,” he said. “This decision will allow the real demonstrators to stay and the T-shirt salesmen to leave.”