Washington DC

Today we spent the day in America's capital, Washington DC. We started off by visiting the white house and I snapped a picture of a guy who looks a lot like Obama, chilling at the front. We also visited the Vietnam War memorial which was very disheartening as there were so many names. Finally we visited the Holocaust Museum. Again, security was very intense. They made me take a sip of my water to test if it was safe. Once we got in, we were greeted at the elevator and then we begun. It was so eerie being in there. It's one thing to study it at school but it's another to see the belongings of those who were killed, see the beds that they were forced to sleep in and see the trains that they were transported on. We also listened to real accounts which was horrifying. It seems that a lot of countries have something that they're ashamed of, something dark that happened in the past and there always seems to be an underlying theme of racism involved. It seems crazy to me that Hitler managed to manipulate so many people into thinking that what they were doing was right. Seeing pictures of school children raising their arms makes me think of how susceptible we are. I thought about the whole Kony phase and about how quickly so many people jumped into the cause without first looking into it. Not that I am saying that the campaign was bad, but it just goes to show how easy it can be to employ a large number of people very quickly.