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The Temple that is the Lincoln Memorial

posted 16 years ago by ricanwarrior
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I last visited Washington DC on vacation over 10 years ago and spent many hours at several of the monuments and museums but I most remember my time at the Lincoln Memorial. From the moment you enter the main structure, it is almost like a secular temple from the lighting (both natural and assisted) and layout that makes it very hallowed and other worldly. Watching "Mr. Smith" and the scene where Smith flees from the hearing to the refuge of the Memorial reminded me of the feeling I had when I stood at the shadow the statue of our 16th President.

Has anyone else had the same impression?

[–] sammyjankis24 15 years ago

That wasn't the real lincoln memorial the real one has the head of an ape

"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement."

[–] boomstick7693 15 years ago

you had to go ahead and ruin everything with a bad joke, didn't you?

[–] acwoodcraft-1 14 years ago

What an awful thing to say.

A heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beatin' just the same.

[–] bhobnine 13 years ago

The thing is even more impressive at night.
When I saw it they had put the Lincoln head back on.

"Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that"