The White House Visitor's Center was interesting - the display with the quote from Teddy Roosevelt regarding his daughter Anne made me laugh. 😊
The Washington Monument is closed indefinitely for maintenance, so you can only take pictures from outside. When it was completed in 1884, it was the tallest building in the world.
The Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool are beautiful.
It was built in 1914 as a memorial to the slain President. The 36 columns surrounding the monument represent the states in the Union at the time of Lincoln's death. Lincoln hated slavery - he saw it as hypocritical for a nation founded on the "all men created equal" principle - and he used his power of office to abolish slavery and freed the slaves. Many years later, Martin Luther King Jr. would give his "I Have A Dream" speech from the steps of this very memorial.
The Three Soldiers statue stands nearby and is meant to complement the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
It's meant to portray the major ethnic groups who fought in the war - European American, African American and Latino American - and is based on the likeness of actual soldiers.
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