Just spent 4 days in DC

[msdogi]

My first time there. A few tours of all the monuments, then a Capital Building tour. The feeling of history and the many people who have been part of this county is at first deeply moving and inspires reverence. Then, for me, images from Jan 6 took over and it was just overwhelming. Sad, nauseating, infuriating, all of that.
The complete lack of respect and honor for what has been created, and deliberate violence against all the buildings and people that represent our great county will haunt me forever.
Maybe the special counsel will at last bring some sort of consequence to the orange malignancy and those who helped organize the riots. I hold out great hope.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R!

[MLAA]

2. Always enough to see for 'one more trip' to DC.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. I've been here more than 40 years and STILL get that feeling.

[bottomofthehill]

12. We will have to meet at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill for a drink some time

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Is "bottomofthehill" THAT hill?

[3catwoman3]

4. That the barbarians of January 6th defaced the floors and walls...

…of the Capitol with excrement tells you all you need to know about them.

[Probatim]

5. But how well did you eat?

That's about my favorite part of going to DC - little restaurants all over the city.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Did you make it to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

It was the most moving memorial I’ve ever been to. I don’t think I could ever go back. I’m a veteran who served during the Vietnam War but not in Vietnam.

[judesedit]

7. It is really impressive and sobering. How many mia/pow's, also?

The Korean War memorial really got me. So lifelike. All are beautiful attempts to remember those who fought and died, but fall far short for the families missing their loved ones. Will we ever be done with war?

[BOSSHOG]

8. What a wonderful thought

Let’s be done with war for God’s sake. I’m an almost atheist but if prayer ends war then so be it.

Best to You My Friend

[judesedit]

11. Amen.

[secondwind]

9. They broke 200-year old lead glass windows.

[bottomofthehill]

13. And most that are convicted from 1/6

Are paying about $500 dollars in damages to priceless pieces of our nations history

[sarchasm]

10. Exactly!

I was there on business in the summer and had some time off. Took the Capital tour, walked the mall. I had the exact same feelings as i was walking up to the Capital. A mix of awe at what I was looking at, and disgust for those that would so easily desecrate it.

[NBachers]

14. Now, imagine Congress Cretins touring Maggot Nazis around, sowing seeds of destruction.

[Meowmee]

15. I have not been there for years

I have not been there for years… We used to go there nearly every year for a conference. And also I went once with my mother and her mom for a mini holiday. I think that was the first time that I visited the White House maybe.

[FakeNoose]

16. I've visited to Washington many times, but I don't think I'll ever go again

As you say ... too many awful memories of January 6th and the Chump years.
I don't think I want to go back there now. He has ruined it for all of us.

[msdogi]

17. definitely not ruined

This election showed we can recover from the stains and stench, it's just a long process. Serious consequences for the bloated maggot and his acolytes in congress and elsewhere will help a lot

[Ilsa]

18. I haven't been in 30 years, and have fond memories.

It deepened my respect for our nation, our government. I'd love to take my family back to Washington.

[liberal N proud]

21. We used to go to DC all the time

Then the orange menace moved in and we haven’t been back.
Loved going different times of the year, Memorial Day was a favorite time.

[cilla4progress]

22. We got back from a cross-country trip there in October -

Visited the museums, hung out on the Mall, did some insurrection tourism! We had drinks at the
Willard Hotel.

Great trip - everyone was friendly and civil.

[DFW]

23. My brother still lives near there (Langley-McLean area)

I go back three or four times a year. My dad was a Washington correspondent for 50 years, and introduced us to a LOT of people whose names are now in the history books. When I was a boy, he used to take me with him up to the Senate Press Gallery in the Capitol, and hang out with guys whose names are now on office buildings. At the time, I had no clue of the company I was keeping. At age 9, I never really got why Pierre Salinger never brought JFK along with him when he visited our house. It is said that DC is the biggest small town in the world. Many years later, I got it.

For the record: capital as in our capital city. Capitol as in the building where the Senate and the House of representatives are located.