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Submitted by “Andy” Anderson The recently completed Chapter-sponsored visit to Tidewater Virginia provided all the interest and excitement one could wish. Ideal early fall weather made perfect the scheduled visits to the original site of the Jamestown Colony, Colonial Williamsburg, the Revolutionary War battleground and British surrender site at Yorktown, and the awe-inspiring Civil War battlefield at Fredericksburg. Equally, rain did not deter or detract from a beautiful tour of Washington by night, including stops at the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, the Korean War Memorial, Vietnam Wall, Iwo Jima Memorial, Navy Memorial, Roosevelt Memorial and much more.
A second highlight of the week was a visit to the Mariners Museum in Newport News, site of the recovered remains and artifacts of the Civil War ironclad, Monitor. Her gun turret and portions of her hull and engines can be viewed as they are painstakingly preserved as a lasting memorial to the day that Monitor v. Merrimack forever changed the course of naval history. All in all, this TROA-NH tour has been one of the very best to date, even though the adrenaline was generally raised by the bus transits back and forth between Washington and Richmond during the height of the Maryland/Virginia sniper attacks. |
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