Lightning strikes Washington Monument; two National Guardsmen hospitalized in separate strike
"Two National Guardsmen deployed to Washington D.C. due to protests were injured in a lightning strike during severe storms Thursday night into early Friday, hours after an initial bolt struck the Washington Monument."
"“We received a call around midnight informing us that two military personnel had been injured in a lightning strike,” D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department Public Information Officer Vito Maggiolo told USA TODAY. “We responded and the two individuals were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.” "
"Maggiolo said the guardsmen were injured in Lafayette Park, with close proximity to the White House, in a separate incident from the lightning bolt that struck the Washington Monument. " ((my note: it struck the monument twice))
"Both soldiers were from the South Carolina Army National Guard, a spokeswoman for the state’s Guard told the Greenville News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Their names and hometowns were not released. "
“It was clearly an indirect strike, presumably to a tree that was nearby.”
Also covered in the WA PO Lightning in D.C. area struck Washington Monument, injured National Guardsmen in Lafayette Square on Thursday night
It was also tweeted out: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/ea43YuBJa6R543bEn0Snl8snt4k=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PAYSB35NZFAWBNHWRLHWPJQVEA.jpg
This is a mapping of the ligthning strikes GIF 
