DC at 1.00 am !!
WOW.........i can't really put in words how amazed i felt when i entered the Lincoln Memorial very late at night, and stood watching and wondering the beauty of the place, and how BIG it is......it was really an awesome sight and when u turn around, u can c the refelcting pool with the picture of the washington monument smothly reflected over the water (Though i don't feel comfortable with calling it the washington monument becoz i c it as a typical pharonic obelisque, but however that's only becoz i'm egyptian:))
Well it all started when Franky suggested that she's take me in a walking tour by the famous memorials very late, she said its wonderful and so different that in the morning, well i really liked the passion that she had when she was describing to me how they look gr8 at night, and i think it takes a certain type of personality to actually enjoy the historic places (especially at night) however so, Franky and Richard and i went there and that's how i came to the scene of the Lincoln Memorial, and after that we went to watch the Vietnam Memorial, where they had the names of all the soldiers killed at war written on the wall, and then we went to the Korean Memorial, this was really emotional, it certainly gets into u when u c the faces and the real-size statues of real mean who actually fought and died in the war, with their clothes and gear and true facial expressions.......u know what was the first thing that passed thru my head, i just thought that if we'd do a similar thing for the men who fought the October war in 1973, it would rock egypt to c how these guyz really looked like and who are they and what are their stories...however again i become passionate to my country.....ya3ni i guess this is me and i can't help it :)
however so after that we went to the WWII memorial which is recent as i was told and is an elegant piece of art as well.......the thing that i didn't wanna miss the most was that to read all the qoutes put in the wall in each memorial i've been too, i know that many of them was said by politicians and i'm one of the ppl that consider that most of what the politicians have to say is crap, but i guess the way i saw it this night wasn't political crap, it was more to me of quotes said by leaders to their nation in such a critical and shaping time, and that's why i think i valued what i read gedan.
Well Franky, ur suggestion was amazing and we'll definitely do it again (hopefully with a camera with us) and again my hopes to know more about the american history was stirred inside me.
I really wished we could do something that gr8 or even better to honour ppl who fought for us, i know that being from the younger generation, i didn't witness any war Egypt was into, but i believe that having such memorials would help in attaching the younger generation with our history and encourage them to really "know" about the history (not from school's history books ya3ni)
Well it all started when Franky suggested that she's take me in a walking tour by the famous memorials very late, she said its wonderful and so different that in the morning, well i really liked the passion that she had when she was describing to me how they look gr8 at night, and i think it takes a certain type of personality to actually enjoy the historic places (especially at night) however so, Franky and Richard and i went there and that's how i came to the scene of the Lincoln Memorial, and after that we went to watch the Vietnam Memorial, where they had the names of all the soldiers killed at war written on the wall, and then we went to the Korean Memorial, this was really emotional, it certainly gets into u when u c the faces and the real-size statues of real mean who actually fought and died in the war, with their clothes and gear and true facial expressions.......u know what was the first thing that passed thru my head, i just thought that if we'd do a similar thing for the men who fought the October war in 1973, it would rock egypt to c how these guyz really looked like and who are they and what are their stories...however again i become passionate to my country.....ya3ni i guess this is me and i can't help it :)
however so after that we went to the WWII memorial which is recent as i was told and is an elegant piece of art as well.......the thing that i didn't wanna miss the most was that to read all the qoutes put in the wall in each memorial i've been too, i know that many of them was said by politicians and i'm one of the ppl that consider that most of what the politicians have to say is crap, but i guess the way i saw it this night wasn't political crap, it was more to me of quotes said by leaders to their nation in such a critical and shaping time, and that's why i think i valued what i read gedan.
Well Franky, ur suggestion was amazing and we'll definitely do it again (hopefully with a camera with us) and again my hopes to know more about the american history was stirred inside me.
I really wished we could do something that gr8 or even better to honour ppl who fought for us, i know that being from the younger generation, i didn't witness any war Egypt was into, but i believe that having such memorials would help in attaching the younger generation with our history and encourage them to really "know" about the history (not from school's history books ya3ni)
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