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Touching History...literally!

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IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING... I'm in a somber scrapbooking mode right now. Most of my pages are dark colors and memorials or tributes. This is THE flag that flew over the Pentagon just after 9-11. It's faded and has some dirty marks on it. When you enter the Smithosians Museum of American History it's just inside the rotunda hanging with the information board in front of it. I got the four smaller pictures cropped from a picture of that board. The flag is not behind glass or ropes or barracades of any kind. There weren't a whole lot of people milling around at that time so after I snapped the pictures, I walked right up and grabbed the lower right corner. WOW! I can not tell you the incredible feeling you get when you actually get to touch a piece of history! During that same visit, we got to see THE Star Spangled Banner. It's behind glass and is in the process of being preserved. You can't take pictures of it but just seeing it...again...WOW! I had a family friend killed in the second tower on 9-11. Scott Johnson. He was able to get a call out to his family just before the second tower was hit. The family figures that the second plane plowed right into his floor giving him no chance to escape. I dedicate this page to him and all those lost on that day that we can never forget