Korean War Veterans Memorial Washington DC

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Vandaag een drukke dag. We staan op tijd op omdat we, ook al vooraf in Nederland, een tour door het Capitool geboekt hebben. Weer met de taxi er naar toe, wat gaat dat snel. Het weer is mooi, zonnig en warm dus blauwe lucht, altijd leuk voor foto's. De tour valt iets tegen, je ziet maar een paar zalen en de gids praat amerikaans op een frans tempo …

Ben & Franzi verbrachten drei (15.09. - 18.09.2012) sehr schöne aber auch anstrengende Tage in Washington Dc. Dabei besuchten sie ebenfalls den Soldatenfriedhof in Arlington und die Naval Academy in Annapolis.... …

Nach einer 24stuendigen Busfahrt mit dem Greyhoundbus sind wir gut in Washington D.C., der Hauptstadt von den USA angekommen.
Hier gibt es wirklich so einiges zu sehen. Vom weissen Haus (zu dem man uebrigens nicht naeher als 50 Meter hin kommt), ueber das Kapitol, bishin zu der bekannten Washington Mall mit etlichen Denkmaelern und natuerlich …

It sounds like the beginning of a very bad movie but in actuality is it the beginning of a trip of a lifetime...

I made a point of arriving in DC a few days before the Monday morning start of my program so that I could visit with a Korean family living next door in Virginia. This Korean family, the "Lee Family", holds a very special place …

What started out as a casual day walking on a crisp sunny day from our Guest House to the National Mall to view the memorials turned out to be a day full of questions. We visited the Lincoln Memorial and read Lincoln's artful words that inspire even today, the Vietnam Memorial, the World War II Memorial and the Korean War Memorial. We continued …

Well, refreshed and settled in the new neighbourhood it was time to let our presence known.
Yoo hoo MIchelle! Yoo hoo Barack! It's us, Kaf and the girls, we're just out the front. Is this a good time? No?
Don't worry girls, its not us, its all those other bloody tourists hanging around. They don't want to make them jealous.
Oh well, …

May 2, 2012 - Day 1 -
On the morning of the trip, we had to be at the school by 2:30 a.m. My dad drove me to school. We left the house at 1:45 a.m. It was pouring down the rain. By pouring, I mean, we could barely see and had to run into the school. We were 5 feet away from the door and still ended up soaked. I went in and sat down in the …

My whirlwind tour of Washington this morning was fantastic. We started off by heading to the White House. Yes, the white house. It's actually not as big as it looks on TV. You can’t really get anywhere near it because the security is so tight, but it was great to see. It feels strange looking at things that you’re so used to seeing …

Hey yall. Just a quick update of Washington as we are in Miami *****es and cant really be bothered writing too much. Too much beer to be consumed and swimming in the sun to be done.

Day 1

We arrived in Washington from our 4 ½ hour bus trip from NYC where we stayed in Manhattan the night before. Again a bloody heat wave! Record …

... aber das tut unserer Urlaubsstimmung keinen Abbruch, denn wir haben ja frei und nicht die. Lincoln Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, World War II Memorial, Washington Monument, White House Wir folgen einem Tipp aus dem Internet und fahren mit dem ...

... our circuit ended at the World War 2 memorial which we had previously seen at night. Following this we headed to the Korean War Veterans Memorial which was the most dramatic, with statues of soldiers frozen in time. We then walked up to the Lincoln ...

... the sites. Washington Monument - A huge mono Lincoln Memorial Thomas Jefferson Memorial WWII Memorial Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Korean War Veterans Memorial Vietnam Veterans Memorial  There are a number of companies offering bus tours but ...

... , Connor said,"How Horrible."(referring to the death of all the men listed on the wall). To the right of Lincoln's is the Korean War Veterans Memorial...my favorite. You see 19 statues of men on a battlefield and behind them is a wall which you see their ...

... everywhere, all through the night pretty creepy! The next day we visited the Lincoln memorial, The national world war II memorial, the Korean war veterans memorial. We then went to the Holocaust museum. We then visited the pentagon and the sight of the ...

... , but we learnt so much more from Dave's explanations. The Franklin D Roosevelt Memorial was very atmospheric, but the Korean War Veterans Memorial gave me goosebumps, seeing the figures for the first time as they became distinguishable in the dark. ...

... also a wall off to the side of the Memorial that had a drawing with "Kilroy Was Here".  Next was the Korean War Veterans Memorial.  Nineteen stainless steel sculptures stand silently under the watchful eye of a sea of faces upon a granite ...

... and enjoying our freedoms because of what this memorial and the other memorials in the park stood for. One of Washington's newest memorials, the Korean War Veterans Memorial pays tribute to the many that fought in the Korean War, my Uncle Ed was one of ...

... for sure. I headed across the road for a look at the Potomac River and Arlington before heading over to the Korean War Veterans Memorial which honours those American's who answered the call and gave their lives during the 3 year war against North Korea. ...

... on the mall are the Lincoln Memorial, the National World War II Memorial at the east end of the Reflecting Pool, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Albert Einstein Memorial.  The Smithsonian Institution is an ...