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Vietnam Memorial. You know you HAVE to take THE picture, so I did.


The memorial is famous b/c you can see yourself against the names of the dead, effectively bringing the dead to life, or linking yourself to them, depends how you look at it.


Met with a friend at a Belgium restaurant in Eastern Market (one of DC's many up and coming districts). It's the best Belgium bar I've ever been to, with a real Belgian bartender and a selection of 4-5 beers on draft. We split an appetizer, avocado stuffed shrimp and ahi tuna.



Flew back to San Diego after an 8hr flight. Flew out the next day for an interview. I'm getting old, can't do that any more.

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Korean War Memorial:


Soldiers without eyes. This is my fav memorial...I think it conveys real emotion.


You wander around town and see all sorts of important buildings. Here's the FDIC.


WW2 Memorial, Atlantic side in day.

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This last week I went to DC for a conference. Didn't sleep or eat a lot, but I got to see the monuments twice, once at night in the rain, and once in the day.

Conference at the University of Maryland:


Of course I visited the Supreme Ct. No arguments on Fridays.


It's autumn in DC. They actually have weather.


Washington Monument at night with the WWII memorial. 11.30pm...you get the monuments all to your self.

Air Show 2006

It poured this morning but luckily the air show wasn't rained out. What looked like a million people went, and it took us an hour to get into the parking lot, and more than an hour to exit. But it's the best and biggest air show I've ever seen, and the turn out (people wise) is absolutely amazing. Plus it's great to be brainwashed every now and then. The announcer had a chaplain lead us in prayer before the air show, and there was plenty of forced love your country and support the military. It's a pretty good ad, and the military wings brought good recruiting toys.

We got reserved seats this round in the front row. As a result, we didn't eat allll day. But we rewarded ourselves with In/n/Out after the show. P/H were there also, but I didn't see them. I think they snuck into the reserved seating area though.

Osprey


Marine w/ the pixelated uniform and face paint.


Marines on tank.

God I'm late updating

This last weekend, we boarded and toured an "amphibious assault" ship for fleet week. This particular ship was the oldest in the Pacific fleet, so it's going to be decommissioned in February. I didn't take pix inside, here's some guns though.


Afterwards we fetched food at Karl Strauss, the flagship one. I'd much rather go to the new flagship bloomingdale's in SF.