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Work on a new memorial got underway in Boston to honor the nearly 500 people who died in the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire.

Decades in the making, a memorial honoring those who died in the Cocoanut Grove fire and the major advancements in burn treatment, trauma response and fire codes that followed is set to break ground at Statler Park on Sunday.

A committee honoring the victims of the 1942 fire that broke out inside Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub, killing nearly 500 people, will break ground on a memorial to those lost in the tragedy during a ceremony Sunday afternoon to mark the 81st anniversary of the devastating blaze.

The president’s response to the Middle East crisis has been forged with an eye to next year’s election, but several polls suggest fewer than a third of Americans back his conduct of foreign policy

The flags — 5,000 of the stars and stripes and another 5,000 of the white-and-blue flag of Israel — were posted Wednesday in triangular Statler Park, across the street from the Park Plaza hotel, at the behest of David Jacobs, publisher and editor of the weekly Boston Guardian newspaper, and a good friend of his who would like to remain anonymous, Jacobs said.