My daughter and I went to see the Lincoln Memorial. I was tired and hot from the walk so I sat down to rest. My daughter said, “No mom, get up and walk.” The nice man sitting next to me said to my daughter, “You don’t want to have to call 911 now do you?’ She smiled at him and told him she is a nurse. The nice man looked at me and said, "Sorry, I can’t help you there.”
We had a nice laugh about that.
Sincerely,
Lincoln Memorial National Memorial
This famous monument in Washington, D.C., honors the Great Emancipator, 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, with a 19-foot marble statue under a 99-foot-tall structure modeled after the Greek Parthenon. Completed in 1922, this monument is one of the most-visited national park sites in the country, and includes murals, inscriptions from two of Lincoln’s speeches, and fluted Doric columns representing the 36 states in the union at the time of his death.
State(s): District of Columbia
Established: 1911
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