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This guy was foraging for his (or her) Thanksgiving dinner in the reflecting pool between the Lincoln and Washington monuments.

The Vietnam memorial is so powerful, even more so on Thanksgiving morning. Looking down the wall at over 56,000 names in semi chronological order, makes one realise the senselessness of war. The names that struck me the most were the last ones on the list. They died at the end of the war, after we started withdrawing. All for naught, they lost their lives. (It can be said that all the other men on the wall suffered the same demise for no discernable benefit to mankind)
I found a couple "Schwarz's" on the wall but not one of them was my dad.

The serenity and beauty of this Park Ranger gazing at the auburn
foliage struck me in odd contrast to the horror detailed on the wall. The
reflection in the wall seems to point out 2 sides of life. Beauty and ugliness,
construction and destruction, life and death.

The National Christmas tree and Washington Monument

The Jefferson Monument and reflection in the Tidal Pool

12.30.99 preparing for
"Americas Millennium" on the National Mall. Looking at the back of the 1999 sign
in between the Lincoln and Washington monuments

Started in 190X, construction was finished in 1990. Over 80 years to build this
English-gothic style cathedral.

Detail from one of the
many stained-glass windows


WWII fighter plane reflected over the flag on Apollo 11's earth-landing capsule

