June

June is almost over and I have hardly written anything. I went to National History Day with Meleah at the University of Maryland. That was amazing. Her group, the first time they every competed, placed fourth in the nation in junior division documentary. They also won the outstanding junior entry for Arkansas. We did the tourist stuff. Arlington, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, World War II Memorial, FDR Memorial,Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, etc. The most amazing thing I saw the whole trip, though, was the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Still, twenty years after it was built, people are leaving items there. I saw a baseball, wrapped in a sandwich bag, inscribed "We love you, grandpa." A Cavalry division left pictures and names of the men they lost, laminated, underneath the names on the wall. All those lost lives. All those dead men.