Shutdown effects ripple across US  Tourists take pictures of the
partially closed Pentagon in Washington on the second day of the
US government shutdown. REUTERS/Gary Cameron A string of
cancellations and delays caused by the federal government
shutdown is rippling across the United States, ruining dream
vacations, upending carefully laid wedding plans and
complicating the lives of millions of people.   Scores of
weddings planned at national parks and monuments around the
country were moved or postponed, and vacationers hustled to
change their itineraries after finding iconic sites from the
Statue of Liberty to the Lincoln Memorial closed.    In Boston,
Italian tourist Federico Paliero and his girlfriend Claudia
Costato peered through a closed metal gate to catch a glimpse of
the USS Constitution, a wooden, three-masted US Navy ship from
the 18th century docked in Boston Harbor that serves as one of
the city's major attractions.         In northern Virginia,
officials canceled blood drives that would have pro