Das zweite Wochenende / Weekend No. 2

Soviel in Sachen Geschichtsunterricht für heute!!!
Für Fotos klickt rechts auf "Lars´s images".
My second weekend should become very exciting. I made a trip to Arlington Cemetery with Andrea, one of my fellow interns. The Arlington Cemetery is located at the boundary between Virginia and Washington, D.C. and is a famous tourist attraction today. Famous people like John F. Kennedy are buried there. The mansion used to belong to Robert E. Lee. Well, maybe some of you will ask now "who the hell is that guy?". I will tell you. Robert Edward Lee was a General of the Confederate Armee in the Civil War between the northern states (the Union) and the southern states (the Confederacy) from 1861 - 1865. The Southern states rebelled against their membership in the Union and eventually secceded between December 1860 and May 1961. Eleven states which left the union joined together to form the CSA (the Confederate States of America). Robert E. Lee, who didn´t symphatisize with seccecion as a matter of fact, finally decided to put himself into service of the Confederacy because he couldn´t bear to raise the sword against his home state Virginia, which became one of the eleven member states of the Confederacy. He became the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. After he had joined the Confederate Army, the Union Army annexed his mansion (Arlington House) which lies so close to Washington, D.C. As you can imagine, the guy on the picture above is Robert E. Lee.
Well, that´s enough history lesson for today!!!
For pics click on "Lars´s images" on the right.
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