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In reply to the discussion: Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot [View all]electric_blue68
(15,123 posts)just about split evenly (but they're intersperced with each otber) between Fun visits, and Protest: rallies, marches, and demonstrations.
I started in ?'70/'71 going with various people, and by myself all the way up till 2012 (Obama's 2nd Inaugural). And once w family '64.
So I think my first visit with my sis, and a cousin we
didn't need to get a visitor's pass when we visited The Capitol. I think I would have remembered trapising over, and getting it
I remember standing under the vaulted dome which was quite impressive, if I'm remembering right there's a "whisper gallery" aspect if you stand at one end of where the dome is.
We took the 'mini subway'. And I think we visited The Senate chamber which I thought was "small".
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One of the wierdest creepy things watching the 1/6 video of the assault on The Capitol later that evening was when they were going down a somewhat narrowish hallway (at least it appeared that way) .
The walls were a medium colored reddish brown wood, but the curved archway ceiling had some kind of
medium light blueish and white sky painting in contrast to the wood walls, and I gasped because I thought I remembered it from part of our tour around 50 years ago!
It was a great place to visit, and I think I lost my slides from an earlier move, though I have some memories of those, too.