Washington, DC

2 more sleeps and I get to visit home!

Went for a long early walk this morning. Sat with my mocha in Lafayette Park across Penslyvania Avenue from George & Laura's house (I wasn't invited in) then walked down the Mall by the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial (where Martin Luther King made his famous "I have a dream" speach) and then the Viet Nam Veteran's Memorial. In advance of the US Memorial Day long weekend, a group of school kids were doing rubbings of names.

Let's all hope they're not back in forty years with their kids looking at names of dead friends on yet another war memorial wall. Over fifty thousand names on this wall, most of them only eighteen or twenty years old. What a waste of life.