Our ‘rising seniors’ visited Washington, D.C. as part of an annual travel option for Pius X students. These students have just completed the U.S. History class and will take the Government class this coming school year, making this D.C. trip very timely. A lot of great sites were packed into four days of touring, including visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where a few Pius X students participated in the changing of the guard and wreath laying ceremony.
Other sites included:
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- World War II Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Korean War Veterans Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial
- Washington Monument
- Gettysburg Visitor Center
- Gettysburg Battlefield
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- White House
- Thomas Jefferson Memorial
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
- Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Arlington National Cemetery
- U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial)
- Pentagon 9/11 Memorial
- United States Air Force Memorial
- U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- Kennedy Center
- National Archives
- House of Representatives – in session!
