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The Clarion — November 18,2005
BC students spend weekend
by Tabitha Breedlove
Business Manager
Packed tightly on a small travel bus,
forty-five faculty, staff, and students left
campus at 11:00 p.m. on Nov. 4, heading
north to Washington D.C. Kim Owen, Jo
Pomphrey, and Bill Byers were in charge of
the group. The travelers slept on the bus
on the nine hour drive up. Of course, there
were plenty of stops on the way up,’keep-
ing the riders from really getting a decent
amount of sleep.
Arriving to the D.C. area at about nine
the next morning, the tour group went
straight to the hotel, unloaded their lug-
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tookthe Metro to the National Mall, the
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quite an experience. It’s quite like 4e&l
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the Chocolate Factory’.
The first museum as you reach the
surface from the Metro is the United State
Holocaust Memorial Museum. There is a
special tour that is free of charge, but ex
tremely intense. First, you choose a pass
port of a survivor/victim from a shelf; this
is who you are to be as you are walking
through the exhibit. Then, you get on this
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Holocaust Memorial Museum.
two way elevator that takes you to the top
floor, all the while playing a video of im
ages from the concentration camps. As
soon as the doors to the elevator open on
the top floor, all that seen is a large por
trait of a scene from a concentration camp.
As you walk along, they take you through
the timeline of the Holocaust, leading up
to the so-called final solution. There is a
tremendous amount of research and much
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Thomas Adams walking to the WWII Memorial
from the Washington Monument
to leam from this exhibit. One cannot leave
without feeling a shiver and knowing that
what happened is a little closer to home.
After leaving there, our group walked
across the park to the Washington Monu
ment. It is the American version of an Egyp
tian obelisk, minus the hieroglyphs. Stand
ing on the back side of the monument, one
can look out to the World War II Veteran
Memorial, the Reflection Pool, and the Lin
coln Memorial.
The World War II Memorial is a ring of
thick pillar like structures, adorned with
wreaths and the names of a state on each.
Then there is a pool and fountain in the
center The walls are inscribed with famous
quotes from history concerning our troops.
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The lights at night in the ring are unbeliev
able.
Walking on next to the Reflection Pool,
we were quite disgusted with how gross it
was. There were duck droppings all over
and the water was brown and green. The
A gaze at the Capitol.
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