AUGUST?!? Are you FREAKING KIDDING!?!

When people ask me the two biggest reasons I live in California now instead of near DC, I always answer "February... and August."

Seeing as how I just went back for an OUTDOOR event one week from February, though, perhaps I better just stifle myself (no Archie Bunker chair??) so to speak.

The flag is in its own room because hanging on the wall was ripping it apart, in essence. They restored it (some corporation... Nike?... footed the bill because Congress was too cheap to come up with a few million) and now it's on a table, at a very slight angle, in a controlled-atmosphere room, which you view through glass. I guess that part's OK, since they do need to preserve it, but the line was a bit annoying. I bet on a regular day the line wouldn't have been so intense, to be fair. Anyone who hasn't seen the flag our national anthem was written about... or visited Ft. McHenry, for that matter, should take the time to do so if ever given the chance. That flag is BIG and IMPRESSIVE AS HELL.

But seriously, I should register "www.bringbackthependulum.org" or something. This needs a crusade. That pendulum was cool.

About Feinstein, nah, but if you ever get Arianna's address, let her know. I was bummed.

-CW

The pendulum is one of the more vivid memories I have of the American History Museum. And, as I recall, 'ole Glory used to be lowered several times throughout the day in the main section of the museum where you enter...why would they want to hide it away in a separate room?

You're posts are already starting to pique my interest in making another trip to DC...sometime in August, I should think...it can't get too hot or humid for me!