A group of us went to see the World War II Memorial among others on Saturday night. It was quite a sight to see completely lit up at night. I enjoyed walking around looking at the pillars each representing a different state and watching other tourists take picutres by their respective states.
What struck me most was a wall of stars, each star represented 100 soldiers who had lost their lives in WWII. At first we had started to count how many were in a row or two to see if each represented maybe 10 soldiers, but after looking it up to find that each star represented 100 soldiers it was shocking to see. Outside of this area was a memorial wreath and a letter left from a son to his father thanking him for serving our country.
There's also a fountain in the center of the memorial, this was an exciting part because tourists had taken their shoes off and stuck their feet in the water. Naturally, we wanted to be apart of this so we decided to sit for a while with our feet in just looking around at all the tourists and the Washington Monument which was lit up directly in front of us. It was an amazing time to just take in everything that this memorial stood for.
-M.T.
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