On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:59:54 -0400, Yeff wrote:

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:46:09 -0400, Billy Beck wrote:

That Memorial is *always* the top item on my to-do list whenever
I have a spare moment in Washington.

And I've seen it at every hour of the day, but it is never so
powerful as in the middle of the night.

I've been there three times so far. It's never exactly where I expect it
to be and it always manages to sneak up on me. I'm always looking far
forward when, with a start, I realize it's slowly been rising up next to me
off to my right (I always approach it from the direction of the Capitol).

It used to catch me by surprise, too. I've gotten used to it.

Here is something that I discovered the last time I was the

If you consider the Wall (in plan view) as two long quadrangles
sharing the same line at the angle in the center of the Wall, that
line points almost directly at the statue of Albert Einstein at the
National Academy of Sciences, across Constitution Avenue. If you
stood on the sidewalk immediately adjacent to the statue and facing
with your shoulders parallel to Constitution Avenue, and then turned
to your left to about 10 o'clock and began walking, you would walk
about three hundred yards before stepping right off the top of the
Wall at its angle.


Billy

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