Sometimes I have ideas, often these ideas should not be acted upon. Today as we landed at Reagan National I was reading about the early Gemini missions. Knowing that Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee are buried at Arlington National Cemetry and seeing the sun shining, I thought hey, we could detour via there before driving down to Virginia Beach.
The layout means it's not trivial to see specific graves and it turned out to be quite hilly, we did see the Kennedy Memorial, which was an odd emotion, especially seeing aside the two adults their unnamed stillborn daughter and slightly premature son who survived two days.
We made sure to locate the Lockerbie bombing memorial. I am still amazed at the detective work they did, but also wonder if the courts did get it right.
The Challenger and Columbia memorials were priorities for me and Dick Scobee the Commander of Challenger was buried right next to that memorial. I don't remember that disaster occurring, it's possibly only months before I do have memories of outside events, I remember the Herald of Free Enterprise Disaster in 87 and whilst I haven't looked it up have recollections of a North Sea oil disaster of some kind in later 86.
We were pretty tired with all the pushing and wheeling by that point and the clock was saying it was time to move, we probably missed things considered unmissable, but then wandering around a cemetary seems a slightly odd thing to do anyway.
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