It's been a busy couple of days and I have several more coming my way! On Saturday Josh and I got to spend some quality time with just our son for a few hours. We went to the D-Day memorial in Bedford County for Scout Day and had lots of fun!
The Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts enjoyed taking their military assessment test and going through a mock enlistment process...
...Aiden was recruited for the Army as an electronics engineer!
Even though we got a later start than our Pack, we still got to see a few boys we knew...The boys thought the ship anchor was pretty neat and really "huge"!
Aiden got very excited when he got to see a plane from WWII...he was expecting them to be more triangular and have sharper edges like the more modern fighter jets we see today!
This was my first visit to the D-Day memorial and I especially liked the rendition of the soldiers coming ashore on the beaches and the water sprays mimicking bullets hitting the water around them and the statue showing how they marked the shallow graves of soldiers that need to be brought home and laid to rest. I also really liked the Overlord archway and the flags representing all of the countries that were part of the Allies during WWII.
My husband's favorite part of the day, by far, was getting to meet some of the WWII veteran's and hearing part of their story. I only got to meet the first one before Aiden popped back out of the tent proclaiming "It's too crowded in there" so I stayed outside with the boy while we gave his Dad a chance to meet them all.
Aiden even earned a patch for participating in three specific activities and he got to choose a special prize for answering questions about each of the stations around the Memorial. All-in-All it was a great morning and we were especially happy with how well organized everything was. Our visit even inspired Aiden to get out his plastic Army men and start playing war...Of course he always wins and his sisters don't quite like that, but hey it's all good...
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