[FoxInSocks]

encourage volunteerism by visiting more than 100 disadvantaged youths who came to the National Mall to begin building a "green" house for a Texas family whose mobile home was destroyed by a hurricane

Why on Earth are they building a house on the National Mall? That area is certainly not zoned for residential construction.

[2ndDivisionVet]

It sounds like they built a mobile or modular home there and shipped it to the family in Texas. Why didn’t they build it closer to the family? Oh, yeah, that wouldn’t make for a good photo opportunity with Aunt Esther...