People who drive along a road near the memorial sometimes think the statues are real soldiers.

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The victim told police he was driven to a Shell Gas Station on Memorial Drive in Watertown.

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Start at the Anderson Memorial Bridge near Harvard Square and pedal east along Memorial Drive to get a glimpse inside the gates of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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According to The Boston Globe, the two men hijacked a black Mercedes SUV, and headed West from Cambridge along Memorial Drive, an urban highway that runs parallel to the Charles River across from Boston.

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