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We spent the afternoon roaming around the Revolutionary War Battlefield here in Yorktown today.



Some of the flags waving outside the visitor center

From Left to Right
1st PA Regiment
1st RI Regiment
Bourbonnais Regiment
Soissonais
Touraine Regiment
Royal Welsh Fusiliers


Cannons















I was aiming for the camper full of tourists

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Madison playing with the cannons (Kids, do not try this at home)






Trees and skylines seem to be my favorite things to photograph

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The Yorktown Victory Monument







And for size reference, that's Madison hanging out at the bottom of the monument




The inscriptions on the four sides of the monument

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The US National Cemetary at Yorktown


This is a "I-don't-know-how-many-greats" uncle of mine on my paternal grandfather's side. (The only side of my family that has been here in the states for more than 2 or 3 generations)


The majority of the graves there are of unknown soldiers, as many as 4 buried in one grave. These are the graves that give me the greatest sense of reverence. If no one else was able to mourn their loss and be grateful for their sacrifice, I do.




Compared to the other National cemetaries I've seen, this one is small, but beautiful

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man, all of my favorite stuff in one place: trees, battlefields, skylines and historical monuments.

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great pics, vyper!

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haha... those are great TT!

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I thought I had mentioned this, but I guess I forgot. As you can see in some of the pics, a lot of the tees in this area are now broken or crooked. The battlefields are right near the water and took a fair wallop when Hurricane Isabel came through last year.



The road that I live on turns into Colonial Parkway about a 1/4 of a mile down from me. It's a very wooded area and we lost 92 trees just on the small bit of property that my townhouse is on in that storm. From what the neighbors and the property manager told me (I ran away from the storm, so I wasn't here to see it) You could only get out one of the two exits. And the one that you could get out of, you could only go about 50 feet in either direction because of all the trees down. So, many of the residents here were stuck here for over a week with no power and no water (the pumps at the reservior went down, and when they started working again, the county officials told people not to drink the water because it had been contaminated). There are still hundreds and hundreds of trees down all along the sides of the road and back further in the woods. Maybe that will be my next photo shoot (after I take pictures of the Greek Orthodox Church for willimo )

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Better, Vyper?

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heh...very nice

But bent and broken trees have better stories to tell, I think.

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A happy afternoon to the cute girl, She find a BIG squib. All the other is boring~~~ The cannon is adult's toy. Have a look: what had happened after they palied the BIG squib~~~ they turned the battlefield to the cemetery.

I hate war.

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BIG squib?

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Yes, Mug, BIG squib. Don't you crayon the hinges with paved pajama branches?

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HAHAHAHAH

like you need more [p]'s!

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