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#1
03-30-2019, 12:54 AM
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Iwo Jima Monument
We were visiting my daughter for the week in Arlington, VA. She lives about 2 1/2 miles from the "Iwo Jima Monument" which is what she calls it. Really it is the "United States Marine Corps War Memorial" which has a statue of the famous second raising of the flag on Mount Surabachi.
She took me there on Thursday. It was completely renovated starting in 2015 and finished just last year (2018). It looks brand spanking new! At the end of the post is a video of walking around the statue from the back to the front. Watch the flagpole, you get the illusion of the flagpole being erected as you walk to the front. And of course since she is a millennial, we had to take the obligatory selfie...     
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Jim CBOB0497 "That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell Last edited by DrHenley; 03-30-2019 at 09:14 AM. 
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#2
03-30-2019, 05:57 AM
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Great pics, thanks for sharing them !!
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Rich COTEP #762 A gun is a tool, no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.
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03-30-2019, 10:26 AM
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They did a good job, I was there before they started the Reno. Nice pics and thanks for sharing.
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03-30-2019, 06:06 PM
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Thanks for sharing! Your daughter is absolutely beautiful, and you have about as much facial hair as my great aunt had in her 70's. Hated having to give her a kiss on the cheek! ROFL
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COTEP: CBOB578 DW CCO SIG GSR 1911 SA Micro Compact and a spectacular cast of others! "You have never lived, until you have almost died. And for those who fight for it, life has a flavor that the protected will never know." Guy de Maupassant, 1893. Anonymously, penned on a sign at a command post at Khe Sanh, RVN.
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04-02-2019, 05:25 PM
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Jim CBOB0497 "That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." - George Orwell
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04-02-2019, 11:08 PM
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Thanks for sharing. Hope to see it for myself some day. I'm old and ornery no selfies. Just wait... The wife will start to forego the compliments and just toss barbs. At least mine remembers where the line is, though she likes to push it now and then.
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03-30-2019, 06:06 PM
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Thanks for sharing! Your daughter is absolutely beautiful, and you have about as much facial hair as my great aunt had in her 70's. Hated having to give her a kiss on the cheek! ROFL
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COTEP: CBOB578 DW CCO SIG GSR 1911 SA Micro Compact and a spectacular cast of others! "You have never lived, until you have almost died. And for those who fight for it, life has a flavor that the protected will never know." Guy de Maupassant, 1893. Anonymously, penned on a sign at a command post at Khe Sanh, RVN.
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04-02-2019, 03:44 PM
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Excellent pics, and the way y’all did the video is awsome!
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"Sights are for the unenlightened." Rick IDPA/NRA Certified Safety Officer/Range S.O.
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