Happy Veterans Day! We left the hotel at 830 to head to Arlington National Cemetery. This year, we were early enough to get into the ceremony at the Memorial Amphitheater.
It was bright and warm and after some entertainment from the Marine Corps band, Pres. Biden arrived and gave a typically personal address for the occasion, remember his son Beau's service.
After waiting for the motorcade to clear, we got to watch as the veterans service organizations who organize the annual ceremony laid wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
We next headed over to the Kennedy graves where we read some speeches carved into the memorials and contemplated their legacies.
We walked over to the Marine Corps Memorial where some high school bands were playing for the occasion.
After a walk to Rosslyn and a Metro ride, we got a late lunch at some food trucks, then some went back to the hotel for a bit while a few of us spent time in the American History Museum. We decided to do our walking monument tour before dinner and started with the Washington Monument.
Next was the World War II Memorial.
From there we walked to the MLK Memorial.
Next to that was the FDR Memorial.
And then to the Korea, Vietnam and Lincoln Memorials.
Then we look a (long) walk to dinner at Busboys and Poets (we walked instead of taking the Metro because we wanted to see the White House at night, but with construction started for the Inaugural, we couldn't really see it). After an excellent dinner, we finally took the Metro back to the hotel and crashed with our pedometers registering a day of 29,000 steps and 19 miles of walking.
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