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Memorial Day, Capitol Hill (DC)

 
As I write this having spent Memorial Day 2015 in Capitol Hill in Washington,DC, then surely having spent part of the prior few weeks in NH and Vermont colors my lens. But I was back in Capitol Hill for Memorial Day 2015. And this is what I saw & felt.
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People from outside the area will think of the national larger than life events.
Yes, there was the parade on Constitution Avenue, which you'd all know as the National Mall.
Yes, there was the moving tribute, and a visit from the President, at Arlington National Cemetery.
Yes, every year, a few hundred thousand bikers roll into DC for Rolling Thunder to honor out veterans, prisoners of war and missing in action.  They've been doing this since the late 1980's and do bring visibility to the issue, in a respectful way speaking with a loud voice.
 
That's what the foreigners-to-our-neighborhood think of.  Those of us who live here, simply think of this as a big village, and that's how we celebrate Memorial Day.  I live on a street that is a block long.  I know everyone here, their sisters, their grandkids, their dogs.  And they know us and my dog too, which is why no one calls ... more

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