My next stop on the whirlwind - Arlington, where I have to be from 2 PM onwards till about 6 PM for a meeting...
With time to kill, I did a quick drive through at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington...
The first glimpse from the Uber cab...
It looks fantastic...
The three memorial spires range from 61 metres high to 82 metres high and appear to be soaring...
The design evokes the image of "contrails of the fighters as they peel back in a precision 'bomb burst' manoeuvre"...
The commemorative plaques...
A glimpse of the world's biggest building, the Pentagon behind the trees, and towards the left, the Washington Monument across the Potomac in the District of Columbia...
The dome of the Capitol is also visible...
Heading towards the Arlington National Cemetary...
The cemetery's 253 hectares are home to the dead of the nation's conflicts, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars...
The Kennedy brothers, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, astronauts from the Apollo 1 Command Module fire mishap and John Glenn, the famous American astronaut are also buried here...
The United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) is also located near the Cemetery...
The sculpture depicts six Marines who raised the second replacement United States flag atop Mount Suribachi, in Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945...
The marines depicted here are Marine Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, Private First Class Rene Gagnon, Private First Class Ira Hayes, Private First Class Harold Schultz, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley...
The Washington Monument always follows you...
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