Arlington
Arlington cemetery is a somber way to start a visit to DC. Besides the cemetery, though, there is the oft-overlooked home of General Lee, and the almost too whimsical to be solemn changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
I posted this in April 2004 during week 1571.
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