My Trip

Hey, I'm back! I recently took a trip to the East Coast for a Baptist Bible Fellowship meeting, during which my family was approved to be missionaries. So, yeah, its official. While we were there we got to go to DC. It was so cool!!! Believe me if you ever visit Virgina or Maryland you have to go to DC. I mean HAVE TO!! We went through Tennesse, and Oh My Goodness, it was sooo BEAUTIFUL. Rolling hills and trees everywhere! That was new for me 'cause I've lived in the West my whole life. So now we're traveling around the West in a motor home that a man in our home church is loaning to us. While we're traveling one thing that I want to see is a rodeo. My uncle was able to participate in one, but I probablly won't be that lucky.

Here are some pics of DC. We saw the changing of the gaurd, at the tomb of the unknown sodiers.

Look at how many awards that the got, and no one even knows who they are!!!

Look the White House! "Hi, Mr. President"

Top: South Veiw. The one they put in postcards.

Left: North Veiw. You know, the one the never put in post cards. HMMM Wonder why not ?

We also saw the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. But my favorite were the statues at the Vietnam Memorial. There was the Three Servicemen statue and the Women of the Vietnam War statue.

The Women of the Veitnam War statue was, by far, my favorite.

The first picture is of an African American woman crying out to God while protecting the other two women. The second picture is of a woman behind the baracade, holding the helmet of a fallen soldier. The third, my personal favorite, shows a nurse, putting herself in harm's way, to try to save a wounded soldier. This statue really reminded me of what happens to the women when the men go of to war. For the women at home, they're flung into an emotional and mental battle, they havto hold the fort here, at home, while the men are gone. As for the women on the feild, everyday, whether they're fighting or nursing the injured, they are in phisical danger. That is why I beleive that not only should the men on the feild get credit, but the women also. On the feild or at home, women aren't insignificant to a battle, many times they are the key to success. On the feild the can save a life, at home they hold the family and the home together. Many times, men fight the battle, but without women behind the scenes, and on the stage, the US would be a complete mess.