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02-12-2007, 03:10 PM | #46 |
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I've been to the sites in DC (White House, Congress, Smithsonian), the battlefield at Vicksburg, the Dalton hideout (used to live in Meade KS) and Bent's Old Fort in Co. I've stood on the deck of the Might Mo', looked down from an aircraft carrier deck into the Arizona. And while its not historical, exactly, I've been part of the way up Mt Fuji.
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02-12-2007, 03:13 PM | #47 | |
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Fire a bolt-action rifle as many times as the Warren Commision says he did in a short amount of time with ANY accuracy. Snipers at Quantico couldn't duplicate this, and Oswald was never "qualified" during his time in the military. Race down 6 flights of stairs to the cafeteria in the amount of time the Warren Commisson says he did folowing the shooting and NOT be winded. Dude was cool as a cucumber. Anyway, I could go on forever, but there's no sense in it. People will believe what they want to believe, educated or not. It is an interesting place to visit, that's for sure.... |
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02-12-2007, 03:19 PM | #48 | |
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As you say, it could go on & on & on. |
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02-12-2007, 03:24 PM | #49 |
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I visited the Worlds Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City Kansas. Isn't soon to be forgotten.
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02-12-2007, 03:26 PM | #51 |
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All sorts of Plantations and Civil War Forts and sites, all the monuments in DC, Smithsonian, of course I just returned from Moscow where I was in the Kremlin, St. Basil's and all that. I have seen a bunch of sites here in America, mostly Civil War stuff.
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02-12-2007, 03:27 PM | #52 | |
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02-12-2007, 03:29 PM | #53 | |
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I have been to a lot of places, but I think the Vatican was probably my favorite. I don't know if that counts as being historical since it is present day as well.
The most disapointing historical site was in the same city, the Colleseum. It was very small, and not in very good shape. The main floor was about the size of a basketball court. It was a lot cooler in my imagination that it was in real life. |
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02-12-2007, 03:35 PM | #56 | |
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Yeah I have pictures but I will warn you in advance, they aren't very exciting (I wasn't allowed to take much more than regular street shots and the ouside of buildings). It was another world for sure, I would be glad to post a trip report here in a few days though; I think you may like it. |
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02-12-2007, 03:37 PM | #57 |
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lots of the old school stuff in the UK. the science place in chicago. the national mall. the space place in south tejas.yellowstone. wilsons creek. hannibal mo. the train museum in st loser. lots of stuff in KC and the surrounding area.
i could be the most well traveled hillbilly ever.
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-Normandy (Utah & Omaha Beach, Pegasus Bridge, Point du Hoc, and the D-Day Museum in Caen) -Gettysburg PA -Pearl Harbor (including tours of the AZ Memorial, USS Missouri, and Spearfish) -Ypres, Belgium -Korean DMZ and Freedom Village -Antietam MD -Fredricksburg VA -Harpers Ferry WV -Yorktown VA -Fort McHenry, MD (birthplace of the National Anthem) -Little Bighorn (just driving through and thought I would stop, just happened to be the 125th anniversay with renactments, etc. Other interesting Places: -Notre Dame and other stuff in Paris -Boat tour of Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum (featuring "the Night Watch" ) -Kuwait City -Antwerp -The Korean living history museum -Baghdad, Iraq -Devil's Tower -Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson (grew up 3 blocks away) -Deadwood SD -Mesa Verde, CO -Tombstone, AZ -Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -Wall Drug
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