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WWII Memorial with the ever-present Washington Monument in the background |
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The powerful Vietnam Memorial. Its hard to not be touched in front of the names of so many people who died |
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More of the monument |
This time, from the Lincoln Memorial, with the Capitol Building in the background |
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The Monument was even showing up in Steve's glasses! |
Super-cheese! This is wind, folks, Steve's hair is usually much less uniform in its disarray |
Guess What? The Washington Monument!! Note pretty fall colors on the trees |
Pretty path from Lincoln to the WWII Memorial |
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DC used to be partially wetlands, there is still some water around |
House of Fools? Seriously, though, very impressive building |
WWI Memorial. The most subdued of all of the war memorials we saw |
Great bronze reliefs line the walls at the WWII Memorial |
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A reminder that some of the people memorialized are still with us |
As befitting a nation's capitol, there are innumerable plaques and such in the ground |
as well as enough statuary to satisfy nearly anyone |
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The WWII Memorial has some nice benches, Bb regrets slouching, but meant no disrespect |
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What really makes the air and space (as with many of the other museums) impressive to us is how very close you can be to the actual items that have made so much of our history. It is nice that we aren't insulated from such important artifacts and, at some level, reinforces our faith that most people can be mostly trusted, most of the time. |
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First plane to break the sound barrier. Not a model, the real thing. Right there. |
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That last shot had Bb and Keith in front of the actual re-entry/command capsule from a lunar lander mission, this one is one of the six or so ACTUAL lunar landers built. Must have been very very brave men to ride this thing to the surface of the moon! |
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As the day turned cooler and even windier, we sought some refuge in the Air and Space Museum, the most visited museum in the World |
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