Day 3

We started to day going to breakfast in the hotel. After Breakfast we went to the bus to travel to the White House for a group picture outside. When we were there Obama was in the West Wing in an actual meeting. There were tons of people outside and we learned that when you are apart of the Presidents family you are never alone. In their front yard were hundreds of people taking pictures. Imagine never being able to go outside and play unprotected. There were gaurds all around and there was a sniper on the roof. This was Dillions favorite part. Next we walked by the Washington Monument and took pictures. This was a memorial to George Washington to honor his life. We were amazed at how tall it stood.

Our next stop was the Holocaust museum. Here we walked through the museum and learned about a boy named Daniel. We watched his life story and learned about how he survived the Holocaust and the Nazi's in Germany. He lived in a consentration camp and his mother and sister were killed. His father died of sickness. We walked through a museum that showed us what it was like where he lived and what he went through. He was kicked out of the swimming pool and he was forced to live in the slums and eventually taken to a concentration camp. Here he had to live and learn to survive until he was liberated by the Russians. We walked through a similation of the place where he was kept. We saw the bob wire fences and the gaurds that kept them there. We read about the sickness and in the end we were able to write Daniel a letter. Then place it in a mailbox and later it would be published on the wall. We also walked through Germany and learned about the Propoganda that Hitler fed the people in order to get them to believe and follow him. They were told alot of lies about the Jews and they were led to believe alot of things that were not true. There actions were results of fear and lies that were fed to them by Hitler, a person whom they trusted. It was a horrible situation all around. There was a quote on the outside of the building that said that those who remain nuetral when millions of people are being killed will ensure their way into the deepest Dungeons of Evil. This has happened in History many many times. One example is with Sadam Hussein today. We must watch and fight against this terrible evil. This experience was a hard one to see but made us all aware that evil does exist and we have a responsibility to do good and fight against crimes like this.

After we saw the Holocaust museum we ran over to the World War two memorial and took a picture underneath the Utah wreath. We saw the stars that represented over 100 people killed per star. We walked around and learned of the people killed and what they stood for. We walked back and met up with our group. It was alot to take in in one morning. After this we went to lunch.

The next part of the day was spent in line waiting to go inside the National Archives Building where we were able to go inside and see the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We also saw the The Magna Charter. All of these were the original documents and no flash photography is allowed inside. There were alot of gaurds there protceting these documents. We went inside the gift shop there and everyone bought a copy of the Declaration of Independence. This whole process took us a while and so then we went to dinner.

After dinner we walked through a memorial of waterfalls for Franklin D Roosevelt. This memorial gave alot of quotes that he said. We stopped and read all of them. They talked about the horrors of war and how he was against it and he wanted to find peace with other nations. He was the Presdient that decided to join in World War two though adn stop the war. In doing this he was the one who ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Japan after they attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

From here we went to a memorial for Thomas Jefferson. We read on the walls the quotes he gave. His favorite thing to be remebered for was writing the Declaration of Independence, not that he was a President. From here it was 11:30 at night and so we went home to bed.