The 8th graders of Thomas Edison will be visiting Washington D.C. on a new date of May 30 through June 1 2012. Last year the 8th graders had so much fun and I hope that we will have just as much fun. This year there has been 3 busses ordered and some spots available. See your team teacher for information!
The Holocoust Museum:
At this museum we saw many sad artifacts that came from people that lived through that tragic time period and some even came from the actual sights where many people lived and died. We also were able to read many facts about the survivors, the camps, the victums, the leaders, and the loved ones who had died. This museum was one of the saddest places we went to. Everyone there got very emotional from the sight of what had happened to all the poor victums.
Arlington Cemetery:
The Arlington Cemetary once was the land and home of Robert E. Lee's family during the Civil War. The government, after the Civil War, took the land and made it into a Union Cemetary. The Cemetary grew as years went on and now it is open for the public to see and visit many of the tomb stones of the ones who died. A sad, but interesting part to see there is the Changing of the Guard. The Changing of the Guard took place at the New Ampitheatre. Another part of our tour that was good was the JFK buriel sight. This is where you can find the internal flame.
The Lincoln Memorial:
The Lincoln Memorial was a very interesting sight to see. A cool fact we learned about the statue was, that it is believed that Abraham Lincoln's hands made the letters A and L in sign language. If you read the 3 tablets in the memorial, look carefully at the 1st tablet. You can notice that there was a typo, even though it has been covered. The word FUTURE was spelled EUTURE.
The Capital Building:
The Capital Building, in it's actual size is about three times the size of The White House. On the Capital there is a large dome and on top of this dome there is a tall statue of a lady. This lady is called the Lady of Freedom and like her name she symbolizes the freedom of America. Another interesting fact we learned about the dome is that it used to be made of wood, but then in December of 1854 they decided to reconstruct the dome out of cast-iron. The one fact that we learned right away when we got there was that, if the houses were in session you will see a flag raised above the house. When they are not in session you will only see the one American Flag on the main house or the dome.
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