We have a leisurely
breakfast on the boat and then walk to the Mall and to the Washington
Monument. Crowds are too big to even think about going up the
monument. We walk onto the Reflecting Pool, by the National WWII
Memorial and to the Lincoln Memorial. As we walk towards the Lincoln
Memorial we keep passing people holding up signs trying to engage passerby's on their view of their religion. Many others are standing
around preaching to the crowds walking by and ignoring them. Looking
further we see quite a large crowd of people around the west half of
the Reflecting pool. Oh great we are going to a holy roller
convention ! Well it turns out to be the Reason Rally 2016 “the
biggest gathering of nonreligious people in history” supporting
public policy based on scientific evidence, not religious beliefs,
separation of church and state.
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| The Reason Rally 2016 at the Reflecting pool |
So of course this brings
out the religious kooks who are going to show these people the errors
of their ways. I stop at many entertaining discussions with small
groups with opposing views which are for the most part civil. I find
it highly amusing. I keep thinking of a line that was recently heard
on the VHF radio towards a rather ignorant boater, “You are just a
special kind of stupid”.
After we go to the Lincoln
Memorial we walk to the Vietnam Memorial, our main goal for the day.
For lunch we head back to the Pavilion Cafe. Then we go to the Natural History Museum to catch an I-Max movie on the National Parks.
Down by the Wharf near the
Yacht Club we kept passing an outdoor rib place where they smoke them
right there. Well, this time we stop and by some to bring back to
the boat for dinner.
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| Sabrina and Linda, Ribs on the Potomac |
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