More D.C. Trip - Washington Monument

Walked by this on the way to lunch after meeting up with cousin Leo at the Holocaust Museum. Have seen it on all four of my trips to D.C. but have yet to make it inside and up to the top.

Washington D.C. March 2011 - Holocaust Museum

This was a difficult experience. Shocking, disturbing, horrifying are just a few words to describe what I saw at this place. When I asked my cousin Leo, who lives in D.C, if he wanted to come with us he said, "Everyone should see the Holocaust Museum once. I've already seen it once and I don't want to be depressed the rest of the week." We ended up meeting for lunch after Pete and I did the tour of the museum.

Particulary

affecting was walking through a room full of shoes of holocaust victims and walking through a train car that had carried people to the camps for extermination. It was set up that you had to walk through these things to continue on the tour.