Topic: Rolling Thunder | Jock Goes to Washington (Read 15192 times)

Jock · « **Reply #105 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:36:15 PM »

150,000 tons: the total weight of the Cathedral

Jock · « **Reply #106 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:36:42 PM »

300 pounds: The weight of an average piece of stone at the Cathedral.

Jock · « **Reply #107 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:37:13 PM »

5.5 tons: The weight of the Moses boss stone above the west balcony, the heaviest in the Cathedral

Jock · « **Reply #108 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:37:40 PM »

418,000: How many visitors and worshippers come to the Cathedral each year.

Jock · « **Reply #109 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:38:10 PM »

10,650: number of pipes in the Great Organ

Jock · « **Reply #110 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:38:41 PM »

The Cathedral advocates for veterans and their families and seeks to highlight the special gifts and talents that veterans can offer to their churches and communities.

Jock · « **Reply #111 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:39:10 PM »

Rolling Thunder reminds us all that paying tribute to our veterans also means honoring those who have been lost. They are grateful for the years of dedicated service that Rolling Thunder has offered by bearing witness to the thousands of our POW or MIA brothers and sisters.

Jock · « **Reply #112 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:39:41 PM »

Your commitment to never forget is honored here and across America as we hold you and them in prayer on behalf of a grateful nation.

Jock · « **Reply #113 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:40:10 PM »

Thank you for this blessing.

Jock · « **Reply #114 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:40:39 PM »

Meanwhile back at the National Mall, I am about to take in the Korean War Veterans Memorial

Jock · « **Reply #115 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:41:05 PM »

Not at all…

Jock · « **Reply #116 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:41:33 PM »

Our nation honors her sons and daughters who answered the call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met.

Jock · « **Reply #117 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:42:12 PM »

The main memorial is in the form of a triangle intersecting a circle. Walls: 164 feet long, 8 inches thick; more than 100 tons of highly polished "Academy Black" granite from California: more than 2,500 photographic, archival images representing the land, sea, and air troops who supported those who fought in the war are sandblasted onto the wall.

Jock · « **Reply #118 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:42:37 PM »

A wonderful place to reflect under the trees on the bench

Jock · « **Reply #119 on:** May 30, 2018, 06:43:05 PM »

Engraved on granite blocks near the water pool at the east end of the monument are the casualty statistics for the soldiers who fought in the war.

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