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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WW2_200509_014.JPG: Restrooms Temporarily Closed Sorry for the Inconvenience [Open bathrooms during the initial months of the pandemic were few and far between.]
2. WW2_200509_027.JPG: This was the flower arrangement that had been here for the 75th anniversary event.
3. WW2_200509_037.JPG: Department of Interior flowers
4. WW2_200509_041.JPG: Friends of the National WWII Memorial
5. WW2_200509_063.JPG: D-Day June 6, 1944 You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you... I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
6. WW2_200509_066.JPG: We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other. -- General George C. Marshall
7. WW2_200509_075.JPG: They have given their sons to the military services. they have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks, riveted the ships and rolled the shells. -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. WW2_200509_077.JPG: Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women... this was a people's war, and everyone was in it. -- Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby
9. WW2_200509_088.JPG: They fought together as brothers-in-arms. They died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation. -- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
10. WW2_200509_092.JPG: Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy... no matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory. -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
11. WW2_200509_095.JPG: Battle of Midway June 4-7, 1942 They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war... even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit –- a magic blend of skill, faith and valor -– that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory. -- Walter Lord, Author
12. WW2_200509_097.JPG: The War's End Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death -– the seas bear only commerce -– men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace. -- General Douglas MacArthur
13. WW2_200509_100.JPG: Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices. -- President Harry S Truman
14. WW2_200509_104.JPG: The heroism of our own troops... was matched by that of the armed forces of the nations that fought by our side... they absorbed the blows... and they shared to the full in the ultimate destruction of the enemy. -- President Harry S Truman
15. WW2_200604_13.JPG: A potato in the Idaho section.
16. WW2_200604_17.JPG: A lei above the Hawaii section.
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Wikipedia Description: World War II Memorial
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The World War II Memorial is a memorial of national significance dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II. Consisting of 56 pillars and a pair of small triumphal arches surrounding a square and fountain, it sits on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on the former site of the Rainbow Pool at the eastern end of the Reflecting Pool, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.

Opened on April 29, 2004, it was dedicated by President George W. Bush on May 29, 2004. The memorial is administered by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks group. More than 4.6 million people visited the memorial in 2018.

Design

The memorial consists of 56 granite pillars, each 17 feet (5.2 m) tall, arranged in a semicircle around a plaza with two 43-foot (13 m) triumphal arches on opposite sides. Two-thirds of the 7.4-acre (3.0 ha) site is landscaping and water. Each pillar is inscribed with the name of one of the 48 U.S. states of 1945, as well as the District of Columbia, the Alaska Territory and Territory of Hawaii, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The northern arch is inscribed with "Atlantic"; the southern one, "Pacific." The plaza is 337 ft 10 in (102.97 m) long and 240 feet 2 inches (73.20 m) wide, is sunk 6 feet (1.8 m) below grade, and contains a pool that is 246 feet 9 inches by 147 feet 8 inches (75.2 m � 45.0 m).

The memorial includes two inconspicuously located "Kilroy was here" engravings. Their inclusion in the memorial acknowledges the significance of the symbol to American soldiers during World War II and how it represented their presence and protection wherever it was inscribed.

On approaching the semicircle from the east, a visitor walks along one of two walls (right side wall and left side wall) picturing scenes of the war experience ...More...
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. The child president's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here.The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! Trips: Because of COVID, the farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC -- and didn't do any overnight travel anywhere. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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