Lincoln Memorial

Okay ladies and gentlemen, this is the show stopper- The figure of Lincoln is amazing! He looks like he is going to get right out of that chair. The north wall is inscribed with the Gettysburg Address, the south wall the Emancipation Proclamation.



This beautiful temple is a re-imagined homage to the Temple of Zeus, in the ancient Greek city of Olympia.


Unlike the Zeus, Honest Abe would easily be able to stand without tearing off the roof...





Possibly the greatest speech ever written, at least in America...


To me, anyway, this statue was very ominous, kind of creepy. You feel like Lincoln is looking right at you ...


The preserver of our Union looks across the Reflecting pool at the obelisk honoring its creator...

Korean War Memorial

This was not my favorite one, but was directly across from the Vietnam memorial. All of the soldiers have that thousand yard,

lifeless stare...

Vietnam Memorial

These photos of the Vietnam Memorial were taken later in the day after visiting the WW2 Memorial. It is north of the Reflecting Pool, between the WW2 and Lincoln Memorial.

These life sized figures face the wall at the entrance...

This is the wall as you move past the figures. These people, like me, came to remember friends, neighbors, loved ones...

Lawrence "Larry" Poet is the person that I came to remember. He was the son of our next door neighbor, Ralph Poet. He was three weeks shy of his nineteenth birthday when he was killed. I was ten years old.