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“Alright everyone, back on the busses!” Mr. Moore
shouts across the lawn. Eventually everyone migrates to the bus.
As I hop on the bus, I smile because I realize that I’m
still wearing Sam’s hat. “Oh the cleverness of
me” I think to myself. I sit next to mike and the bus
starts to move shortly after. The next stop is the Lincoln
Memorial. We get off the bus in front of the monument. Mr. Wes
gives us some history on the statue inside and the architecture.
He says, “If you look on the left side of Lincoln’s
head, there’s a profile of the sculptor in the statues
hair. There are two places that it could be but no one is
sure.” I keep that in the back of my head as we climb the
steps. Mike and I count every step on the way up. Eventually we
grow bored and he starts to run, so I chase after him. We are
laughing the whole time. He won but that’s only because he
had a head start. We reach the top and he leaves to find his
friends. I catch up with Rachel and Claire. “Oh, I get it,
you and Mike huh?” Rae teases. “Nah, you know
we’re only friends. I don’t even like him” I
say back to Rae. “Hey! Just remember, he’s all
mine” Claire cautions me. I give her a big smile like I
understand the boundaries. Anyway, Mike and I are just friends.
Rae, Claire and I walk throughout; taking pictures of just about
everything we see. We even try to spot the profile of the
sculptor in Lincoln’s hair. I found one potential spot with
Claire but Rae also found another spot on his head. We laughed
about it but then we went back down the steps to meet up with the
rest of the guys. We walk across the street to the Vietnam War
memorial. Again, Mr. Wes fills us in on the history of the war
and the monument. He tells us about the girl that designed the
shape of the monument for a contest. Mr. Wes also told us about
the symbolism behind the shape of the memorial. How the wall are
small at the beginning and at the end and how the walls are
larger in the middle. We walked through silently and
respectfully. We took the occasional picture as we walked but
here was nothing extremely exciting to see. We went to the Korean
War memorial next.
