Monday, June 9, 2008

Holocaust museum, Gettysburg, and Hershey PA


On Wed the 4th we went to the Holocaust Museum for 4 hours. This exhibit is quite moving. You walk through a R.R. car used to haul prisoners. There is a room of shoes, piled high, that were taken from prisoners. On Thursday we headed to Gettysburg and spent the afternoon and next day on the battlefield. It was hard to imagine a town of about 5000 and 51,000 casualties (dead, wounded or missing) in 3 days. There were literally 100s of monuments to various state battilions (both Federal and Confederate) throughout the park. (see photo) For a change of pace, on Saturday we drove out to Hershey PA and visited the Hershey Co. visitor center. We ate chocolate and bought some too! During the afternoon we went to Antietam, another Civil war battle site. Sunday, we went to Shippenburg Nazarene Church (PA) and moved on to south of Cleveland. Today (the 9th) we drove to Canton and visited the NFL Hall of Fame. Was fun to see Bart Star jersey's, Emmett Smith's joursey he wore when he broke the rushing record and other such fun items. The first football uniforms from the early 1900s were pretty funny.

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