I'm back...
Well DC was fun... We got to Daniel's apartment early Sunday morning... then we went to his church on Sunday and went to a family's house for lunch...Monday morning Mom dropped the girls and I off at the subway station and we headed into DC. We went to Chinatown to begin with but there was really nothing there so we walked towards DC and ended up by the White House and then headed over to the mall (note...it has come to my attention that many do not know what the mall in Washington is it is not a place to shop. Instead it is wher the memorials (lincoln, washington, jefforson, war memorials etc are) Well we checked out the new World War II memeorial (it was just opened and hasn't even been dedicated yet but will be this weekend so we were some of the first people to have seen it). Well then we went to the Holocaust museum. I twas increadible! I highly recommend it! You get a booklet containing the information of someone caught up in the Holocaust and read it as you go through. My person died in Warsaw, Poland during the war. I was amazed by how wicked Hitler really was. I knew the stuff from history but I never really thought about it. The museum really brought it to life! Part of the display was on the issue of whether the US should have done something to stop this genocide before the war ended (some had suggested bombing austwitch (sp) in 1943 or so) If that had happened it could have stopped the mass murder taking place at that prison. However, it would have killed everyone inside and Hitler could us that (the killing of civilians) as propaganda against the allies so they never did bomb it. As I thought about this I wished we had done something sooner but then my mind went to the current world situation. Now I am by no means saying Saddam and Hitler are the same by what I am about to say because I don't think there is another Hitler out there! However, Saddam was killing his own people. He did have children in prison. There were mass graves. Family members did disappear. Speaking against Saddam often led to death. I saw so many similarities. And the US led coalition went in to Iraq to stop this (along with the threat of terror he brought to the world). To me it just cemented in my mind more the rightness of the invasion.
Well after the museum we rented a paddle boat and headed out onto the Potamac river for awhile. While we were out there a military helicopter flew over at us and landed in the White House area. A few minutes later it flew back. Well I don't know for sure that the President was at the White House but he did have to be in Pennsylvania for his speech so I think the helicopter was picking up our president and he flew right over us! thats my story at least. Well the Potamac was beautiful! Afterwards we found a stand to buy FBI, CIA sweatshirts for the girls and I ended up getting a pink tie die FBI t-shirt...Well we drove through the night and got here about nine this morning... I don't sleep well in cars so I went to sleep when I got home and woke up at about two...
well thats all for now... AND CAMP STARTS ON THURSDAY!!! FINALLY I WILL HAVE STUFF TO DO (camp goes till August ninth and I have to move into my dorm on August 16th for a week of leadership training so my summer is pretty much over... no more being board!)
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