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The Library of Congress

 

 

Congress

So the story goes…Robert E. Lee lived on a hill in Arlington House. When the Civil War broke out his home state Virginia became part of the Confederacy so he decided to remain loyal to his state and back the Confederates.  The Union didn’t like this so when they took over Virginia they forced him out of his house and put a graveyard of Civil War soldiers around it so he wouldn’t want to come back!  Arlington Cementary has been built around these early graves.

The Kennedy family’s tomb with the eternal flame lit by Jacqueline Kennedy after J.F.K’s death

 

 

 

The tomb of the unknowns from the Civil War.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT

 

 

LINCOLN MEMORIAL

 

 

THE WHITE HOUSE

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We saw so many things, including the Wright brothers plane, Amelia Earhart’s plane, space suits with moon dust on them and the Hubble Telescope.  There is still so much to see so we are planning on going back tomorrow!

We could have spent hours in here but just didn’t have the time! Unfortunately we couldn’t take any pictures of in the archives.  We saw many important documents in American history including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation.

 

Ford Theatre where Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday 1865

 

 

 

 

The house across the street where Lincoln was taken and died later the next day