National World War II Memorial Washington DC

17th Street, between Constitution and Independence Avenues Washington DC , District of Columbia, United States - Phone: 1-800-639-4WW2

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    Museum en Memorial Dag

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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 …

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    Dee Cee

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    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 …

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    Sightseeing in the rain

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    All along we've been checking the forecast for our trip and Wednesday, Oct 26th was supposed to be a partly sunny day with temperatures in the low 70s. During my morning run in Alexandria, the weather was beautiful and it was shaping up to be a relatively warm Fall day in the metro DC area. So we embarked on our walking tour of DC lightly dressed …

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    Capitol city

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    First off – how many people reading this know what DC stands for? Took me a couple of days walking past buildings saying District of Columbia to realise J

    We stayed at the most amazing B&B, Mount Vernon Square B&B (in the district of Mount Vernon Square, not at Mount Vernon Square – as we realised after carrying 50kg of …

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    WDC - Thank you Police!

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    We got up at 7 a.m. packed our bags, had a cup of coffee in the balcony and headed for the bus station. We said goodbye to the busy streets of NY and headed for Washington. The trip took 4 hours so we used this time for catching g up on editing pictures and writing the blog.

    We got to the station at around 2 o'clock so we had 4 hours of …

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    Capital on "The Hill" & A White House!

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    ... with 58,000 U.S. soldiers names carved into it who died in Vietnam. Lastly were the 56-stone-pillars of the ‘National World War II Memorial,’ with its bronze wreaths and fountains, this was for me the most moving.   Whew, ...

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    Day 135 - More Freebie Fun

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    ... are trees and grass and fine architecture. It really is very impressive. Just a short walk away is the National World War II Memorial. It's a beautiful space comprising 56 granite pillars around a pool and fountains. Very peaceful...... And from there ...

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    Who would live in a house like this?

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    ... , making it the largest Presidential memorial on The National Mall. After the FDR Memorial we stopped off at the National World War II Memorial. The WWII Memorial stands between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument on The National Mall and ...

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    The National Mall

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    ... had come to take a rubbing of an ancestor's name which was moving to see. Next, we went to the National World War II Memorial which is a large low-level round fountain surrounded by tall stone pillars marking various states and US territories. Worn out, ...

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    Washington DC

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    ... "The Capitol". Security 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 ...

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    Washington DC

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    ... . Located in the center of the Mall is the Washington Monument. Also located 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, ...

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    Day 78 – Union Station to Lincoln Memorial

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    ... (a 70 second ride up 550 feet) for spectacular views of Washington DC.  We then continued past the National World War II Memorial to the Reflecting Pool before reaching the Lincoln Memorial.  What a massive building.  The statue of ...