{"id":266,"date":"2014-07-19T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2014-07-19T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T12:32:09","slug":"memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Memorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We found out that we had a personal connection to some of the memorials in Washington, which made them even more special, if possible.\u00a0 On the Vietnam War Memorial Wall, we found Emma&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s name &#8211; Roger D. Bell &#8211; with a little help from the volunteers there.\u00a0 Just looking at that wall with panel after panel after panel, with hundreds of names on each one &#8211; overwhelming.<a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-267\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment16-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"get-attachment\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment16-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment16-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment16-690x517.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment16-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And at the World War II Memorial we found my daddy&#8217;s uncle&#8217;s name, who was the first person killed in that war from Rockdale County, GA.\u00a0 This was on a computer at the visitor&#8217;s center there.<a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-268\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment17-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"get-attachment\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment17-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment17-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment17-690x517.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment17-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We finished up our day at Arlington National Cemetery, where we found the memorials for the crews of the Challenger and of the Columbia just as it got to be time for the gates to close.\u00a0 It was just a very, very meaningful day.<a href=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-269\" src=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment18-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"get-attachment\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment18-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment18-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment18-690x920.jpg 690w, https:\/\/bigmamasdaycamp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/get-attachment18-980x1306.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found out that we had a personal connection to some of the memorials in Washington, which made them even more special, if possible.\u00a0 On the Vietnam War Memorial Wall, we found Emma&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s name &#8211; Roger D. 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