Your favorite monument / memorial on the National Mall?

spuden

FDR

MikeDamone said:

spuden said:

This is my wheelhouse. Lived in DC for 14 years now. Still go down and walk around the monuments during off-peak/season tourist hours.

Lincoln and Washington are biggest and most iconic, but my favorite is FDR because it’s off the beaten path and tranquil. Never a million tourists there like the others. You can walk through it without fighting throngs of jackasses posing for stupid pictures. You can see the progression of the United States in murals from the Depression through WW2.

I also like Vietnam even though it gets crowded, it never seems touristy. It’s a somber place and you can feel the nation’s heartache.

WW2 is cool, but doesn’t have the same power and feeling as Vietnam. It’s also not as powerful as Lincoln.

Korean, like the war itself, is kind of forgotten among the other monuments. Not worth the time.

Is there a room in the FDR memorial dedicated to throwing Americans isn’t prison camps? That would be pretty tranquil.

Nope. Just like there is no room in the Washington monument dedicated to Washington trading in slaves. But you knew that.

MikeDamone

Lincoln

spuden said:

MikeDamone said:

spuden said:

This is my wheelhouse. Lived in DC for 14 years now. Still go down and walk around the monuments during off-peak/season tourist hours.

Lincoln and Washington are biggest and most iconic, but my favorite is FDR because it’s off the beaten path and tranquil. Never a million tourists there like the others. You can walk through it without fighting throngs of jackasses posing for stupid pictures. You can see the progression of the United States in murals from the Depression through WW2.

I also like Vietnam even though it gets crowded, it never seems touristy. It’s a somber place and you can feel the nation’s heartache.

WW2 is cool, but doesn’t have the same power and feeling as Vietnam. It’s also not as powerful as Lincoln.

Korean, like the war itself, is kind of forgotten among the other monuments. Not worth the time.

Is there a room in the FDR memorial dedicated to throwing Americans isn’t prison camps? That would be pretty tranquil.

Nope. Just like there is no room in the Washington monument dedicated to Washington trading in slaves. But you knew that.

Cool false equivalency. Where is Washington’s government policy on slavery?

FDR made is racism into policy that didn’t previously exist. It wasn’t just a moral failure that was common at the time.

But you knew that.

HTH.