 What is the significance of the lifting-off of the Washington Monument at the story's conclusion?
Within fifteen minutes, the disaster-trained crews had detected heavy radiation emanating from the crater and there was a scurry of men and equipment back to a safe distance, a few hundred yards away. At 5:30 a.m., a plane landed at a nearby airfield and a platoon of Atomic Energy Commission experts, military intelligence men, four FBI agents and an Army full colonel disembarked. At 5:45 a.m. a cordon was thrown around both the hospital and the blast crater. "It's impossible and unbelievable," Colonel Thomas Thurgood said for the fifteenth time, later that morning, as he looked around the group of experts gathered in the tent erected on the hill overlooking the crater.
 Society is too quick to dismiss the thoughts and behaviors of people living with mental illness as irrational or absurd
 Mental 'illness' could and should, in many cases, be viewed as an asset, rather than a deficit  Society is too quick to dismiss the thoughts and behaviors of people living with mental illness as irrational or absurd  People living with mental illness pose risks and/or threats to society and should be entrusted to government care  People living with mental illness(es) may possess abilities not understood by humans living without mental illness