The Pentagon Memorial

So this past week while Robert & Sarah and the kids were here, we stopped to visit the Pentagon Memorial...one that I had seen from afar but never gone to basically because it didn't look all that great. (Is that wrong to say?)

However, this memorial has soo much symbolism, it's amazing. It actually reminds me a lot of the Bonfire Memorial.

Entrance to the memorial

You can see the "new part" by the color variations. The Pentagon has been being re-done in phases...this part had just been re-done before it was hit...had that not been the case, the damage and loss could have been much worse.



To honor the 184 victims, 184 illuminated benches, have been arranged according to the victim's ages, from 3 to 71, in a landscaped 1.93-acre plot. Each bench is engraved with the name of a victim. The benches representing the victims that were inside the Pentagon are arranged so those reading the names will face the Pentagon's south facade, where the plane hit; benches dedicated to victims aboard the plane are arranged so that those reading the engraved name will be facing skyward along the path the plane traveled.





1947 had the highest number of losses.




Pilot

Update

So I've been so busy here lately I have forgotten about the whole updating process on the blog.

This past week was super busy...On Monday I flew to Atlanta, GA until Wednesday with Sharla & Charlie. The highlight of the trip?? A Chick-fil-a in the Atlanta airport!

Wednesday evening I went to see my brother Robert and his family in Woodbridge, VA. They had slowly been making the trip up to Washington, D.C., since Friday, April 24th. I went and had dinner with them at OTB (amazing) and hung out for awhile.

Thursday was spent getting Rob, Sharla and Charlie off to Keystone (where I'm headed today)..and then the RBDwyer Adventure team would be arriving at my house to spend three nights with me and be touring DC.

Thursday night we went into DC to drive around the city at nightime (my favorite) and ended up scoring an awesome parking spot pretty much as close to the Capitol as you could get on the National Mall and played a few games....so fun!
We started out early Friday morning. I took them all over it felt like, but really they just got a small glimpse - though we did try to hit the major sites. We ventured to the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Vietnam War Memorial, the Capitol, Natural History Musuem, Air & Space Musuem (where it was 'Space Day' so lots of fun stuff to see there), American History Museum, the Pentagon Memorial and the Jefferson Memorial.

We wore their little legs out (as well as ours)..and they had already done quite a lot before arriving in DC. It was so fun having them up here and getting to sort of show them around and having them stay with me. Of course I'm pretty sure their favorite thing was riding the metro!

They took of Sunday morning, heading back to Texas. I headed to Annapolis for the day with some friends and although the weather wasn't ideal (it was raining) we did get to walk around the Naval Academy, the cute town of Annapolis, and of course eat some really good seafood.

Tonight I'm heading to Keystone through Saturday and Saturday we fly out to Las Vegas for the weekend...and then we get back to DC on Tuesday morning!

Here are a few pics from the weekend:

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