"Bob Ackley -> Daryl Stout"  wrote in
news:31150$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 DS>>   When I went through Washington, DC on Amtrak in a "memorial
 BA>   trip" DS> for my late wife...first for her funeral in
Florida (where
 BA>   her DS> parents live), and a return trip within the last 2
 BA>   years...as the DS> train pulled out of Washington, the Conductor
 BA>   quipped "if you don't DS> inhale too deeply, you won't gag from the
 BA>   stench of Washington". 

 BA> I was stationed at Fort Meade (between Baltimore and DC) for a year in
 BA> 1963-4.  I
 BA> saw all I ever want to see of DC.

In 1996 I went to the Air And Space Museum in DC, that was a treat.

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