(The last post from the last trip -onto 2011!) After visiting the Fredericksburg Visitor Center, watching the film, walking along the stone wall, the sunken road and visiting the cemetery on the hill, where unknown soldiers are buried in graves, with numbers indicating how many are resting in the same grave together, the # 5 [...]
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Fredericksburg
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Civil War Sites, Fredericksburg, Virginia on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged National Museum of the Marine Corps, Virginia on November 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The exhibits are powerful – but nothing is more powerful than the presence of the young Marines who are touring the museum with us. Minutes after we get our bearings in the huge main lobby, the first group marches in. They listen to instructions from their commanding officer (in perfect lines, on one bent knee [...]
Mount Vernon and National Treasure
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mount Vernon, Virginia on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hats off to George and Martha! We were thoroughly entertained here – so much to do and see. We arrived after noon – had to scramble to get it all in. The mansion, the wharf and pioneer village, gardens, tomb, and the museums, films, some one-on-one time with Martha (she was awesome). And as if [...]
NSA Cryptology Museum and Manassas Battlefields
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Manasses Battlefield, NSA Cryptology Museum, Virginia on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We want to learn a little about spies and codes and how the NSA evolved, so we pull off the Washington Beltway and visit the small, but interesting and rather hard to find Cryptology Museum, which winds up being right next to the huge NSA complex. But DON’T take that exit and DON’T point your [...]
