Shootings and sights to see

Not long after we moved in our folks delivered the boys. During the week we had never seen so much traffic. It was 6 & 8 lanes of wall to wall traffic. So week days we did not venture out much. Thank goodness our apt was close to the school.  But on the weekends we did the tourist thing. We even went to the Wax museum and had our picture made with LBJ.

We all loved the Smithsonians, Especially Air and Space, American History and Natural History .  We climbed the Washington Monument and walked to the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials.  We made a trek to the Arlington national Cemetery and the ‘Tomb of the Unknown’.  Being a sailor and an ex-marine I was over come by the size and impact of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. I love statuary and monuments.

      

In the United States and the United Kingdom tradition dictates that if the horse is rearing (both front legs in the air), the rider died in battle; one front leg up means the rider was wounded in battle or died of battle wounds; and if all four hooves are on the ground, the rider died outside battle.

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In School I was studying the 407 accounting machine. Every time I fixed something and tried to cycle to print it would blow up! I tried this three or four times, each time with the same results, it would blow up, It continues UNTIL SHERRY FINALLY SHOOK ME AWAKE FROM MY NIGHTMARE! She was saying excitedly, “Someone is shooting from the windows on the 3rd floor!” So every time the man would shoot, the machine in my dream was blowing up! Now that will get your attention.

Sure enough, from our window in the “U” shaped building (we were at the center of the U.) you could see someone running to the windows and shooting at anything that moved.  It wasn’t long until the place was surrounded by police and the man with two pistols kept shooting. The police fired a tear gun canister at one window and missed, hitting the wall and sending tear gas all directions. Our apt began to fill with tear gas.  We evacuated out the back. We went to some friends apartment across the road.

The shooter had a brain tumor pressing on the wrong place and he went berserk.  Fortunately no one was hurt, but made for a good story. We do have  a fun life. (Sherry just attracts this stuff!)

The other shooting was the assassination of George Rockwell of the American Nazi Party leader, he was shot at a coin laundry  in Arlington.  We only heard it on the news, thank goodness we didn’t need anymore shooting around our house.

Life continues. More DC tomorrow.

Nite Shipslog

PS:

The nicest thing about the future is ...

that it always starts tomorrow.

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1968 GTO, Motor Trends Car of the Year