Favo(u)rite Washington D.C. Memorial/Monument?

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It would be impossible to capture in a single picture, but the FDR Memorial is filled with quotes that are all very inspiring. I felt like going out and fighting for justice.

Runners-up are the D.C. War Memorial - which is off in a lonely little corner of the park and is kinda run down - and the Jefferson.

The WWII memorial annoys me.

I voted the Vietnam - it's the least kitschy, and the most populist in sentiment

Yeah I really hate the WWII one as well

i voted for fdr - his has a little dog - where as the rest of them do not have little dogs

actually there's a little dog helping to raise the flag

also fdr is dressed up as a vampire which is pretty cool

lol

no kahlil gibran memorial, then?

i'll take the jefferson over the vv.

kudos for putting the DC WWI memorial on there.

I really hope nobody votes for the Korean War Memorial - that thing is actually worse than the WWII memorial.

that one looks pretty good actually - I don't remember going to see it (the wwi)

http://www.dcpreservation.org/endangered/2003/warmemorial.html

i'd contribute to save it. if it still needs saving.

It's a tough one for me, since I'm actually quite fond of all of them, but Jefferson gets my vote. It always seems the most peaceful and calming.

i think we can all agree tho that these memorials are the pinnacle of the bizarre alienating inhuman architecture that helps to make washington dc such a special place!

oh fer sure

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"I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man"

Gotta love them redheads...

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hey, i used to live there

Have only ever been to two of these but they were boring and the results of the FDR GIS are really choking me up. Too much justice and principle for a Tuesday morning, maybe?

Jefferson Memorial is my favorite. FDR is good, but the sequencing is a bit forced in an outdoor museum kind of way. Washington Monument to Jefferson Memorial to FDR Memorial to Lincoln Memorial to Vietnam Memorial is a great walk.

so what are those stoners hovering over, a spot where Harding banged his mistress?

the Lincoln is the most templelike, wins

jeffason

i hate memorials

u jealous

I've visited most of these many times but I have never seen the Einstein one, that shit looks fucked up the way he's all melty.

"world's smartest leper"

u jealous

lol i bitched abt the coming 9/11 memorial on some other thread - cities are for the living - fuck this ponderous graveyard bullshit!

Have only ever been to two of these but they were boring and the results of the FDR GIS are really choking me up. Too much justice and principle for a Tuesday morning, maybe?

-- Laurel, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:23 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha. the quotations at the Lincoln memorial choked me up like a motherfucker the first time I saw it. he sure could talk pretty.

the FDR is affecting even for dog-haters, but I kept asking what the structure had to do with the man. we're beyond the classical forms here, and it didn't pick up the gauntlet thrown down by the VV, not that that's easy to do.

so what are those stoners hovering over, a spot where Harding banged his mistress?

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:35 AM (Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:35 AM) Bookmark Link

PVMIC

what would be the New-Deal-yay Labor Day counterpart to Rolling Thunder?

i'll vote for the vietnam one.

the korean one looks cool in that photo, but it's pretty underwhelming when you actually go see it.

PVMIC

you really can't say "fuck gabbneb" too often.

anyone younger than 50 = "stoner"

def vietnam

vietnam memorial is the least bullshitty one

Figured out this weekend that all the statues in DC are actually all George Washington, he's just wearing different costumes in each.

This makes it easier to answer questions when your family is in town and pointing in every direction asking "who's that?"

i think we can all agree tho that these memorials are the pinnacle of the bizarre alienating inhuman architecture that helps to make washington dc such a special place!

not in the least, l'enfant plaza owns this all by itself
plus the whole north arlington/pentagon corridor with its giant prefab office structures in between blocks of postwar low-rise housing is surely even more of a downer than almost anything in DC itself

Figured out this weekend that all the statues in DC are actually all George Washington, he's just wearing different costumes in each.

that's really gonna change my perception of the Gahndi statue near your place.

I know! BLOW YR MIND

I guess I'm a sucker for memorials. I really like most of these. The Lincoln memorial is probably my favorite, but I've always loved the Korean War memorial as well. The war memorials are mostly very solemn and quiet, but there's something else about that one. I think it's the way the soldiers are portrayed. Those statues are haunting. Look at their faces - they look nervous, tired, and scared. They're glancing behind them, expecting an ambush. When you look at those statues, your attention is not focused on the cause or the bravery or the heroism - it's focused on a bunch of young men who just look terrified as they wander uneasily through dangerous territory.

no love for the james bvchanan statue in malcolm x/meridian hill park?

theyre the pinnacle if not the epitome xp

max, meet me at Lincoln Memorial to explain 'bullshitty' parts

lol kittytours.org been fooled by gw's masquerade AGAIN

I have never seen the FDR monument, and I did not know of it until now. It is so excellent.

Nathan, my problem with the Korean War Memorial has nothing to do with the statues (although I wish they'd been human scale), it's the symbolic overload with the rest of the memorial. The wall of etched photographs is just a pictoral knockoff of the Vietnam memorial, that pool and the low wall at the top of the memorial just blunts the impact of the rest of it just to get in a couple of quotes and statistics.

lincoln memorial all the way

This country would be nowhere without bullshit.

plus the whole north arlington/pentagon corridor with its giant prefab office structures in between blocks of postwar low-rise housing is surely even more of a downer than almost anything in DC itself

You have nothing but hate for Arlington, don't you, Tom? If you think that's a downer re: architecture, I present Los Angeles.

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neglected obelisk

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-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:56 AM

hahaha seriously he looks like

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