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Notes on Our Field Trip to Washington DC

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The Holocaust Museum The Holocaust Museum was interesting to me because it showed how it truly was, there wasn’t any sugarcoating. They showed how the people lived and were treated. How different people were treated, was horrifying. How some people were skin and bones, some were already knocking at death’s door, the people who were used for experiments, seeing those people were horrifying. Another interesting part to me was the passports, because they were true stories of people who lived during the Holocaust. Knowing another view, and experiencing another person’s view was interesting. The girl that I received was killed for giving Jews her ration of bread and cheese. How she was killed for such an simple act, was something that I wasn’t expecting to know. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial What amazed me about the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, is how the one monument tells about the time that he was president, and honors many people. It shows the breadline, that resembles the time when he was president, it has himself, his dog, and his wife. That just makes me more interested in it, because it isn’t only a monument to him, it’s a monument to multiple people. One of the quotes that was engraved into the rock was really hitting, because it is explaining war in many perspectives, and it shows many people’s perspectives at one time, over the same thing. The Washington Monument The Washington Monument was interesting to me because of it’s history and the stones that the states each donated. How there were fifty different stones, each having different qualities and designs, all in one spot. Also how it is so tall, most of our current buildings appear around that high, yet before most of the modern technology was invented, they were able to build the monument. Arlington Cemetery The Arlington National Cemetery was a fascinating experience, because there were so many people who are recognized and are shown. The shear numb

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