On Sunday I penned a post that the blogger app then glitched on and never posted. It was also unable to recover it so I am attempting a rewrite of that post.
This post is focused on being mindful and remembering WWII. On Sunday, I visited the USS Iowa battleship in the San Pedro section of Los Angeles harbor. It was an incredible self guided tour of this museum ship and on a clear perfect sunny southern California day.
I learned many things about the Iowa and the multiple times that she was mothballed and then brought back into action over the years. Actually the Iowa is the second Battleship I have seen this year, the other was the USS Alabama in Mobile as I drove across the country this winter.
Additionally on Saturday while I was flying out of Midway airport in Chicago I visited a small museum exhibit about the Battle of Midway during WWII. The airport got its name from that battle. This exhibit was very well done and I will revisit it this summer the next time I go to Chicago!
This year I have also visited the WWII memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC twice. I have also visited the National Air and Space museum and the Udvar-Hazy center at Dulles airport where I have seen other historic WWII aircraft such as the B-29 Enola Gay, which dropped the first nuclear bomb.
In the evening on Sunday there was also a pair of flyovers in Orange County along the beach. There was a B-17 and a B-25 that passed twice. This reminded me that since I was in Chicago last week I wasn't able to witness the historic aircraft flyover at the National Mall in DC in remembrance of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe.
So in the end Sunday was a day to experince, visit, see, hear and remember WWII.
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