Posting 13: Arlington & Shops

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We drove to the Pentagon and parked the walked around to the side of the Pentagon where American flight 77 hit on Sept 11. The building has since been repaired and you would never know anything had ever happened there. The area immediately in front of that 'face' of the building is fenced off and a memorial will soon be established there. We caught the Metro to Arlington and after visiting the Women's Memorial, headed up to the Tomb of the Unknown's for the changing of the guard at 12. After we went to some of the other memorials and went off looking for the Apollo 1 memorial site (Apollo 1 was the the one where the astronauts were killed on the launchpad when there was a fire in the lunar module and the door couldn't be opened in time). Anyway, we couldn't find that one and we gave up. An old guy pulled up and offered us a lift to the visitors centre which was a huge relief since my blisters were still sore.

Next we hit Costco and the malls at Pentagon City and did some more shopping.