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START: Metro to Foggy Bottom, then a 30-minute walk, or take Tourmobile One Day “government of the people, by the Travel Tip people, for the people shall not I recommend exploring the monu- perish from the earth.” @ 30 min. ments on foot, but those who y 202/426-6842. www.nps.gov/linc. can’t might consider Tourmobile Free admission. Metro: See start, (y 888/868-7707). The red, white, above. and blue sightseeing trams travel 2 Vietnam Veterans Memo- in a loop around the monuments, rial. In Constitution Gardens, “The passing by every 15 to 30 minutes. Wall,” honors the 58,000 service- One fare is good for the day ($20 for men and -women who perished or passengers 12 and up, $10 for kids disappeared during the Vietnam 3–11). National Park Service rangers War. Two black slabs of granite are on duty around all the following seem to grow from the earth toward monuments daily 8:30am–11:30pm each other, rising in height and join- (except Dec 25). ing to form a “V.” Designed in 1980 by Maya Ying Lin, then an under- 1 Lincoln Memorial. Start your graduate at Yale, it has been likened day at 8:30am, on the steps of this to a “scar in the earth,” evoking the iconic tribute to Abraham Lincoln, deep division the war created the beloved 16th president of the United States. Architect Henry The Lincoln Memorial. Bacon designed this marble, Greek temple–inspired memorial in 1914. Its 36 Doric columns suggest the states of the Union at the time of Lin- coln’s assassination in 1865—days after the Southern states surren- dered the Civil War. Daniel Chester French designed the nearly 20-foot- tall (6m) sculpture of Lincoln, seated in solemn repose, surrounded by inscriptions of his immortal words from the Gettysburg address and his second inaugural address. You’ll likely feel chills as you contemplate Lincoln’s “dedication to the proposi- tion that all men are created equal,” as you gaze across The Mall and its tributes to the many who “gave the last full measure of devotion” so that 05_049014 ch01.qxp 9/11/06 9:07 AM Page 10 10 4 National World War II Memorial. After controversy between activists demanding a tribute to “the greatest generation” that fought and died in World War II, and naysayers who didn’t want The Mall altered, this serene memorial was Full-Day Tours Full-Day completed in 2004—without obstruct- ing the views of the Lincoln Memorial or Washington Monument. Built of bronze and granite, it features 56 pil- The Best lars that represent the unity of the states and territories in their decision to enter the war. The 4,000 sculpted gold stars on the Freedom Wall stand for the 400,000 Americans who died fighting from 1941 to 1945. @ 20 min. y 202/426-6841. www.wwiimemorial. com. Free admission. Metro: Farragut West, Federal Triangle, or Smithso- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial.