DC

 Daddy drove the four oldest to DC Monday morning with Joanna, Sarah, and Juliana.

Our first stop was the Library Of Congress to see the Pillar Of Fire picture!

 

The Library Of Congress

 



Our group with the Pillar Of Fire picture.

        "Now, the last days has come. Here He is, has got His picture taken. When George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI in fingerprint and document, stood up before the people at Houston there at the Shell Laboratory, and said, "I've been a critic myself. I been a critic of Mr. Branham. I said it was psychology." He said, "But psychology... That mechanical eye of the camera won't take psychology. That Pillar of Fire was hanging there; It struck the lens." That's the head of the FBI in fingerprint and document. There it hangs in Washington, copyrighted, the only supernatural being was ever photographed. Now, we've got the picture of it, haven't you. You got a right to ask the Douglas Studios or so forth about it that taken it. George J. Lacy. Look in my book; there's his name, place, everything. Ask him. You see It. It comes down. It does the same thing. It moves and proves Itself."

-William Branham
 



Kaitlyn and Joanna
 

The Capitol Dome restoration project is being conducted in phases to restore the exterior of the Dome. Having last undergone major repair in 1959-1960, the cast iron Dome is suffering from the effects of the weather and age, which include corrosion and cracking.

 



This is the Supreme Court.

 

The Washington Monument is 555 feet 5 1/8 inches tall.

The cornerstone was laid July 4, 1848.  The monument rose steadily to 156 feet financed by popular subscriptions collected by the Washington National Monument society.  Construction stopped in 1858 due to lack of funding. It stood unfinished for over 18 years. In December 1884, a 3300 pound marble capstone was placed on the obelisk and topped with a 9 inch pyramid of cast aluminum, a rare metal in 1884. The monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885.

It takes 70 seconds elevator to reach the top!
 

 

You had a good view from the top of the Washington Monument
 

That is the Lincoln Memorial

Capital Building
No Cherry blossoms yet
 

And that is the White House.

 

In 1885 the first lighting strike cracked one of the stones. Since than the monument's lightning protection system has been updated many times.

These lightning rods (a little bent and burned!) were removed and replaced in 2012.

 

Hope, Joanna, Kaitlyn, and Me
 

The White House
 

Our next stop was the Smithsonian National History Museum to see the famous carrier pigeon

"Cher Ami"

 



  In time of the First World War, I had my father's older brothers there. My cousins was in that war. Many of them got killed.

 But in one place, then, they had a—a whole regiment of soldiers, American soldiers, pinned down. The German army had them pinned down. And the machine gun fire, and the big cannons, and whatever they had, mortar fire, whatever it was, had them pinned down. They couldn't get out, and there's no way of getting out.

  There's a whole regiment of soldiers perishing right there, because they was on every side. They had planes. Daresn't send one up; shoot it down. A man try to get out; well, they, just every side. There wasn't nothing. Their fine guns had failed. All their military strategy had failed. They were penned in by the enemy. There was no way of getting out. There wasn't nothing.

 Then, finally, one little soldier come up. He found a pigeon, one of those homer pigeons. That was their only hope. They wrote a message, and thought, "If this pigeon can only get through, and back to the main headquarters where it come from, can take this message." A message pigeon, messenger pigeon, and that was the only thing they had: a simple, little pigeon. All their military things had failed. But they got a simple, little pigeon. They wrote the message and tied it to his little leg, and turned him loose, with a blessing and a prayer, that he would make it.

  Of course, the Germans seen that white pigeon going up. They fired on it, and everything else. One bullet went through its wing, knocked the feathers out. Another one stripped around its neck, cut its craw off. Another one struck its leg that had the message on it. But the poor little pigeon kept flying, trying to get the message in. He must. There was life at stake. Finally, with his struggles, and flopping in the air, and turning, and fly, and fell. And he fell in the barracks, or the camp where the soldiers was.

   One soldier picked him up, looked at him. This little fellow said, "He's been shot." He opened, looked at his little leg, on his little bruised leg, and there was a—a note. They read the note. It was covered with blood. Though it was covered with blood, the message got through. It got through. They sent reinforcements, quickly, and saved the whole regiment of soldiers. The little pigeon hadn't got through, all them men would have perished. What a disaster that would been! It would been a horrible thing. And that was a great thing for that little pigeon to do, though it cost his blood. His blood was on the message.

 63-0412E - God Hiding Himself In Simplicity

   Rev. William Marrion Branham

 

We went to the tomb of the unknown soldier.  Every hour on the hour a soldier comes on and guards the tomb out of respect. We were there for the changing of the guard.
 



We also got to see a wreath laying ceremony

 



They have walked this so much that there is marks where they have marched.



The Lincoln Memorial

 

 

 

It was a bit cold.