Washington and that'll be DC

What an inspiring and great country the US is and nowhere is this to be seen more markedly than in the countries capital and seat of government, Washington DC

Yesterday, Tom was off 'meeting and greeting' and I had the chance to see the things that Washington is famous for, the Lincoln Memorial the memorial to the fallen of both the Vietnam and Korean wars.

Both memorials are startling in their approach and also quite different but the effect of both is to stop the viewer in his or her tracks and somehow be linked and connected to those wars.

I think I am correct in saying the Vietnam Memorial was built with some controversy surrounding it, why was it to be buried, why just a wall and so on.  In fact when you see the memorial it is the most humbling of experiences made all the more so by the books that index the dead and allow the friends, relatives of those killed in the war to be found on the massive structure.

But as they say a picture is worth etc..

From here it's a short walk to one of the other war memorials and to a war that is often forgotten, that is the Korean War. The statues that make up the memorial are ghost-like and prepared for wet weather, one of the enduring memories of the returning soldiers, but look here is the memorial.....