A few more D.C. pics

Oy Vey! Frustration! i'm gonna just post this as-is b/c i the machine is not co-operating with me today. Have to get to work.

All these D.C. pics were taken on my (not expensive) Motorola camera phone.

Here I'm at the WW II Memorial. It is situated between the Lincoln Memorial (seen here in the background) and the Washington Monument. The WW II Memorial is a relatively new addition to the National Mall and apparently there was some controversy about it's location. Some felt that it would obscure the view of the Lincoln Memorial from the Washington Monument. To prevent this, an existing fountain (seen in the May 10 entry) was "lowered" and the WW II Memorial was built around it.


One of the waterfalls at the WW II Memorial. By design, when you are walking all around the Memorial, you hear the fountain in the center. Then, to provide a "place for contem- plation" in what is a frankly noisy place (people, traffic, fountain, etc.); the designers included two short waterfalls. They are less than 5 ft tall but rather wide and (you can't really appreciate it in the picture) there is a lot of water coming over this falls. As you approach the falls and come to stand on the darker brick border, the quiet roar of the falls overcomes each of the other distracting sounds until you could close your eyes and believe that you are alone with the falls. Honestly, it's a pretty cool acoustic illusion.






On one side of the WW II Memorial is a stone engraved with President Frankling Delano Roosevelt's famous "date which will live in infamy" speech and his promis to "win through to absolute victory".








There is a tower marked "Atlantic" and (obviously) this a picture of the "Pacific" tower. I took a picture of this because my granddad served in the Pacific during World War II.