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Okay, the break helped, some more pictures from the trip

First pic, the US Capital building as seen from the street during our bus tour.

Second and last pics are of the US Marine Corps Iwo Jima Flag Raising Memorial. The statue is actually a depiction of the event which was re-posed after Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press seen a group of Marines raise a US flag during the battle for the island. He asked for an opportunity to take a second picture of that moment as the country needed to see that the war in the Pacific was really carrying the fight to the Japanese held islands after Peal Harbor. Later President John Kennedy decried that the flag at the Iwo Jima Memorial be flown 24 hours a day and lighted at night.

The 4th pic is of one of our Honor Flight officials reading a list of submitted names of Veterans no longer with us while standing next to the wreath from Kansas which would later be placed at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. Included in the reading of the names were my Father's name and my Father-In-Law's name who both in the military during WW2.

The third pic is of one of the many Honor Flight officials while taking break during our tour. They all were very helpful and went out of their way to make sure no Veteran was not cared for.