Washington DC in the Fall
In the Fall of 2004, Shelly and I walked around Washington DC and saw the Mall and memorials. The World War II Memorial was new, so we saw this for the first time. The colors were beautiful.
Here's the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, known simply as "The Wall." It is inscribed with the names of 58,318 American's who died during the war, and those who passed after the war due to war complications. It's a very moving memorial and is always filled with people looking for the names of family members and friends.
Here's the Vietnam Women's Memorial. Dedicated in 1993, it pays tribute to the more than 265,000 women who served during the Vietnam era.
A short distance away from the wall is another Vietnam memorial, a bronze statue named The Three Servicemen (sometimes called The Three Soldiers). The statue depicts three soldiers, purposefully identifiable as European American, African American, and Hispanic American. In their final arrangement, the statue and the Wall appear to interact with each other, with the soldiers looking on in solemn tribute at the names of their fallen comrades.
A couple photos of the Washington Monument taken from The Wall, on our way to see the World War II Memorial.
Here's a number of photos of the World War II Memorial. It's situated between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. It's difficult to get the entire memorial in one photo. My Dad, Edward Murray, was a Marine Corp dive bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater during WWII. One of the battles he fought in was at Guadalcanal, hence the photo of the commemoration of that battle.
