Oct. 15, 2015
Vanderbilt’s fall trip to Washington D.C. started Thursday morning in Annapolis, Md. and ended with an extremely informative sightseeing tour of the major monuments in our Nation’s capitol.
The Commodores started off by seeing the White House, viewing President Obama’s house from the north side before moving next door to the massive Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Vice President Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama both have office space inside the giant building.
The team viewed the Washington Monument en route to the World War II Memorial, located between the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. After touring the WWII Memorial at length, the Dores climbed the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before moving over to the Korean War Memorial. Up next was the powerful Vietnam War Memorial, featuring the wall with over 58,000 soldiers’ names that either died at war or are missing in action.
The Dores stopped by to visit Albert Einstein’s statue sitting outside the National Academy of Engineering. A brief trip over the Potomoc River yielded a viewing of the giant Iwo Jima Memorial standing 32-feet high with a 60-foot flag pole. The statues cost $850,000 to make and was dedicated by President Eisenhower in 1954.
The team bounced back across the river to hit the final three stops of the day’s tour, visiting the Jefferson Memorial, Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial and Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial to round out the day.
