Wa DC - National Mall Area

Hopefully Anna Lyn will post a blog about the National book Fest hosted by the Library of Congress that she attended today in the National Mall area. I know she was sure pumped about it! Meanwhile, Joy and I (Shirley) visited some of the Memorials and went through the Memorial Museum of the Holocaust. Here are a 'few' photos of some of what we were able to see before the rain came down too hard to stay out in it any longer:

Flags around the Washington Monument

Joy looking down the Reflection Pool towards the Lincoln Memorial


Lincoln Memorial


Lincoln Memorial
No reflections in the pool today!


Lincoln - quite large!

The enormity of the columns of the Lincoln Memorial is amazing!

Jefferson Memorial

(Seen by us only from across the Potomac River)

Washington Monument

WA Monument as seen from the Lincoln Memorial

WWII Memorial

Atlantic

Pacific

Korean War Memorial

A small segment of the Korean Memorial Wall

We heard that the pictures are real photos of the soldiers

Viet Nam Memorial Wall

The wall stretched on for quite a ways, listing all of the names of the Americans that gave their lives in the Viet Nam War. There are 58,261 names listed on the wall as of today. They include the names of the MIA's also. The emotions that welled up in us took us a little off-guard, and it was difficult to see through the tears. It was this war that so many of my classmates and friends fought in. Many did not return.

A man taking an etching of a name of a fallen soldier who most likely was someone close to his heart.

The Capitol

Holocaust Museum

(No photos allowed inside)

Women of the Civil War Memorial Bldg.

Department of Treasury

The White House

What a day! ~ Joy and Shirley