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Michael Kelly

Katie Baribeau   Excellent Post 13392!!!! Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas served on the Arlington Guard.

Katie Baribeau (Moore)

Mike Kelly, I believe Tom Cotton was "the Old Guard" and didn't guard the tomb. He wrote a book called Sacred Duty that was very interesting, lots of history about the Unit.  Thanks Frank for adding information.
 

Most, if not all of us have been to D.C., what was your favorite thing to see.  Mine, you may have guessed, is the Lincoln Memorial. I have spent a lot of time reading there, I always take a book about Lincoln with me.  They are upgrading the Memorial now, adding a museum underneath. Another interesting place is the Old Soldiers Home, Lincoln used to go there to refresh.....as much as he could. 
 

Michael Wetzel

Kathy,

Great post, really liked it...I to, have been there a couple of times. A very serene, and wonderful place,

never could get enough of watching the Guards............ 

Thanks Frank, for your input......

Mike Lorts

Katie,

DC is one of my favorite cities. There are so many things to do we always run out of time. I could spend weeks in the Smithsonians. We took two of our grandsons when they were 10 & 12. They loved it. 

Frank Wiley

A really Great thing about D.C. is that all the National Museums are free admission.  Being lucky enough to travel a lot, we are about the only place in the World where all people have free entry.  There are a couple museums in D.C. though that are private and charge admission.  Being a Marine, the Evening Parade at The Marine Barracks with the Drum and Bugle Corps is a Great event.  You need to reserve tickets in advance because of limited seating, but they are free.  My favorite things are the Smithsonian Museums but the most emotional is the Vietnam Memorial.

Jim Coats

Great posts!  

We have also seen the changing of the guard at the Tomb of The Unknown.  Very solemn, very precise and very disciplined with Honor being the descriptor that came to mind.  Frank.  I didn't know about the uniforms.  Thanks!

The Lincoln Memorial was incredible.  The history there was almost palpable.  The other memorials were very good.  Of course, the Vietnam Memorial was tough, but I'm glad we went at Julie's insistence.  I wasn't going to go there, but I'm glad we did.  I cried.

When we went to Pearl Harbor, it was under renovation.  Not long after, we went to D.C. and the Mall was being renovated.  Sheesh!  Still, a great experience in both places.  When we were in D.C. doing the tourist thing, we spoke with one family we met and told them about Pearl Harbor and The Mall.  I said we are hesitant to visit anyplace else or the curse might follow.  We had a good laugh.

I've never been to the Smithsonian and probably never will go now.  Regrets.

DeWitt Bacon

My job once sent me to Virginia, just east of Richmond. The drive to Arlington Cemetery and to Washinton, DC, was not that far, but I wanted to finish the job and get home. My boss chastised me for not taking the time to visit those places. I've never had the chance to go back. To this day, I wish I had taken the opportunity when I had it. 

Mike Lorts

We had the privilege of visiting the American Cemetery in Normandy. It is very emotional and at the same time filled you with pride. The US maintains the cemetery and it is impeccable. 

Michael Wetzel

Sydney, Australia

Six dead, several critically wounded, by an individual welding a very large knife. Just maybe, had someone been ' packing ', this whole incident would not have unfolded in this manner, and had a completely different ending. Maybe ' spears ' are next to be used in another mass murder event........

Frank Wiley

Well Iran has launched its attack on Israel.  Anyone else think it's interesting that they launched the attack on the Jewish Sabbath?  This is going to get real ugly!  God help Israel!!

Mike Lorts

God help all the innocents of the Middle East.

Bill RIHS

I am taking my two sons and going with 3 good friends to France and Belgian to visit Normandy and many other  war memorials. My dad landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. We leave May 8th, getting excited.

Mike Lorts

Bill,

Have a wonderful trip. Visiting Omaha Beach will be very emotional but inspiring. Travel safely!

Richard Deshong

Bill, if you have time in your schedule, visit Monte Saint Michel. It is just a couple hour drive and has a lot of history, including the role it played in WWII>

Frank Wiley

I told Bill about Mont St. Michel.  An amazing place and an amazing story.  N.S.-- Iran says this is the end of their attack after tonight.  The Iranians are the Persians of old.  The Persians invented the game of Chess.  Do you believe the Iranians?  I don't.  This is what Biden's appeasement has produced!!!  No matter what you or I think about Trump, none of this shit was going on when he was President!!

Bill RIHS

Lorts, Katie and Richard; thanks for you encouragement. Richard, we plan on making that stop too. When my dad passed last May my boys looked through my dad's belonging and their interest was high in going to Normandy. It should be great trip. My wife, the princess, will be staying home with my oldest son's 5 year old. She loves that I am taking the boys and our three friends are good friends with her too,

Richard Deshong

Frank, not to put too fine a point on it, but wasn't Trump president while America was fighting in Afganistan? Wasn't he the president who surrendered to the Taliban? Also, there were over forty-five military conflicts between countries between 2016 and 2021. Was he responsible like you seem to imply the current president is responsible for what is going on in today's world?

Michael Kelly

BIDEN, IF YOU ARE THINKING OF RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN THE FALL -------------------DONT

TRUMP HAD A PLAN FOR WITHDRAWING FROM AFGHANISTAN, WHICH THE TALIBAN KNEW WOULD TRIGGER UNMITIGATED ATTACK IF ONE BULLET WAS FIRED AT ANY AMERICAN TROOPS. 

BIDEN CHANGED THE DATE, THE TERMS, AND LEFT ALL OUR EQUIPMENT BEHIND. A DISGRACE THAT IS UNFORGIVEABLE.

Jim Coats

Richard.  Why don't you just come right out and say it.  You love Biden AND you are going to vote for him.  Just get it over with so we all know that you support that feckless empty suit and his handlers in the Oval.  Fact check the following:

SECURE THE BORDER!!  ENFORCE THE LAW!!  AMERICA FIRST!!

Frank Wiley

Trump didn't get us into Afghanistan, he inherited it.  General Keith Kellog said he was on the call when Trump told the Taliban leader that we were going to pull out on our terms (never a surrender) and that we would bomb the crap out of them if they messed with us.  We would not have left millions (or billions) of dollars of military equipment if Trump had been President.  We were also going to keep Bagrahm Air Base active and also our Embassy was going to remain open.  The plan was to keep 2,500 troops there.  The last year of Trumps Presidency we had one KIA.  The first year of Biden's we had 13 KIA's in one day.  

DeWitt Bacon

Frank is right. Trump did not get us into Afghanistan. Bush did, but only after we were attacked by their Taliban, killing thousands of people. Trump had a plan to end that war, saving respect for our nation and not making us look like a bunch of fools like Biden did. I love it when lefties like Richard make charges without backing them up. When did Trump surrender to the Taliban? What 45 military conflicts were going on when he was President? And how did they involve us? Trump was negotiating peace treaties like the Abraham Accords. Many of you have such a bad case of TDS that you will blame anything on Trump that you can think of. The Pelipenesion War, the fall of Rome, And I suppose the Civil War and both world wars were his fault. Pull your drug-addled brains out of your asses and see the real world.

Jim Coats

Katie.  Once again you missed my point.  I am of the OPINION that you shorted the stock for Trump's DJT because and only because it was Trump.  You will never convince me that you picked this stock out of all that were available by accident.  I am of the OPINION that you did it because of your Trump Derangement Syndrome and therefore had high hopes that Trump and, by extension, anyone who supported Trump who invested in DJT would lose money.  Many, many of those people are most likely conservatives whom you hate almost as much as you hate Trump....in my OPINION.  Regular people....NOT politicians.  Just people who just want to survive the devastating Biden administration.

What follows are my so-called bumper stickers that you also despise....and as far as I can tell, do NOT support.

SECURE THE BORDER!!  ENFORCE THE LAW!!  AMERICA FIRST!!

Dennis Moran

going to Normandy sounds fantastic...may you have a safe and fun trip.

I loved going to DC ...Fords theater and the cellar was incredible even went into the bar next door..I believe Booth went to the bar several times the day he shot Lincoln. And the Peterson house. it was so small and Could feel Lincolnl

go early to the holocaust museum its amazing ......

Jim Coats

Katie.  I never called you a liar about your investments....ever!  Maybe wrong in some other context, but not a liar.  Why do I bother?

SECURE THE BORDER!!  ENFORCE THE LAW!!  AMERICA FIRST!!

Dennis Moran

Kathy,

we felt the same things at the Peterson... I stayed and the room Lincoln was in was so very small Im glad they tried to keep Mrs Lincoln out of it...he was such a tall man and knowing he laid diagonaly across the bed..the first time I was their I believe they had a pillow from that time.  going across the street from Fords i could feel the journey...In the basement the Deringer was amazing... I also spent a lot of time looking at the door wih the eye hole for Booth to look into the box... His brooks brother suit....   Hey if you get the chance go into the WILLARD HOTEL next to the White House...its been remoded since then but Lincoln used to go their and theyd had some of Lincolns items on display...I was lucky my Uncle Ed worked for the B & O railroad and worked out of DC  he knew so much about the town.  We took the train from Pittsburgh and seeing Harpers Fairy from the rail was a site....the view would of been the same as if John Brown was still their.

Oh also th hoods that the condemed were hung in is under Fords Theatre. Such an amazing place...yes the Smithsonian is awsome but for civil war go to the confederate musuem in New Orleans it is the best.

Also, the Jewish Holocast shows how the =NAZI  could keep track of events and do the the damage they did to so many people...it wasn't just the jews.....seeing the pictures and thinking of seeing a SS guard with his patrol dog...oh my...I thought of my friend Mr. Simond and what he went through.

The sentries at Arlington and the tombs I HAD SO MUCH RESPECT and was surprised by the actions of others....can you imagine it was Robert E. Lee home...