Washington DC (cont)

South Pacific Familyadventure 2008
Claes Brodin
Thu 1 Oct 2026 21:23

We spent the next day in West Potomac Park visiting Lincolns Memorial. Overlooking the park is impressive and it also includes diffterent war memorial parks. Facing the Lincoln memorial WW-II memorial Pacific is on your left side and Atlantic on the right side. Most impressive and touching for me (with childhood memories from the war on TV news) was the Vietnam War Memorial. Filled with names of all identified soldiers who died in Vietnam, still today new names are added every year. More than 50.000 soldiers died in Vietnam.

In the afternoon we took a boat on the Potomac River to see the city with perspective. In the beginning of the ride we passed the Swedish Embassy .

Just before dark we took an Uber to Pier7 Marina/Annapolis and Dora Mac.

Washington was a pleasant surprise. Much more tranquile than anticipated with large beautiful green areas and loads of historical monuments.

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