National World War I Memorial

Theodore Roosevelt Island

Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac

19 foot, 43 ton block of sunset red granite quarried
 35 miles from the LBJ Ranch in TX

"All my life I have drawn sustenance from the rivers and from the hills of my native state. ... I want no less for the all the children of America than what I was privileged to have as a boy."

~President Lyndon Baines Johnson

And so: "The Johnson Administration added 3.6 million acres of land to the National Park System, including Redwood National Park, Arches National Monument and many others."

The LBJ Memorial, located in Lady Bird Johnson Park, was intended to "be a living place where people could enjoy the pleasures and beauties of nature, not a great stone building or a bronze or marble statue." 

And, so we RECREATE:

#epicjumpingshot #recreating

Lincoln Memorial

Lunch Break at the Lincoln Memorial

Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. 

- Abraham Lincoln

The Gettysburg Address

..."and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

-Abraham Lincoln

The reflecting pond is back to reflecting!

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial

Nestled in Arlington National Cemetery, just a short walk from the Eternal Flame (JFK's Grave) is the Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial.

Mary Anna Custis, the wife of General Robert E. Lee, inherited the Arlington Estate the home from her father. While the Lee family did live in the home for a few years, in May 1861, the Union army captured the home and incorporated it into their defense system, defending Washington, DC. Throughout most of the Civil War, Union soldiers occupied the home and provided assistance to thousands of slaves fleeing enslavement.

View of the JFK Eternal Flame from Arlington House

View of DC from Arlington House

General Lee's Bedroom

Biggest shock of the day: George Washington and Robert E. Lee were related - distantly, via marriage.






My favorite part of the house was the giant spruce tree in the back yard between the two slave quarters.

Hamilton Grange National Memorial

In 1802, 1st US Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton finished construction on this Federal Style Mansion on a 32 acre estate 9 miles north of downtown Manhattan. The "Grange" would be the only house Hamilton ever owned.

Parlor

Fun Fact: The House was moved from its original location in 1889 and then again in 2008. 

Thomas Jefferson National Memorial

Out for a lunchtime stroll...

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

58,000 names; no other words needed.

reflections

Korean War Veterans Memorial

Lunch time stroll...

World War II Memorial

Oscar, my fur brother, enjoys National Parks too!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is the first park on the agenda.

"There is nothing so American as our national parks... The fundamental idea behind the parks... is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in the process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us."

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Posing with Fala

First #epicjumpingshot of the year