TOP: All faces...washington, jefferson, T Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
2nd: GW up close....the eyes really struck me as amazing, very dynamic
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This evening we went to Mt Rushmore. I was kinda nervous about the park, as most of the towns nearby were really hokey and touristy, which I detest. But, we felt we had to give it a chance.
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In reality, it was really quite cool. The walk-up was very simple, just a set of flags throughout US history that you walked through to get to the viewing stand. The mountain itself is quite large, and the heads must be something like 10 or 20 stories tall. All along the base is rockfall, which was dynamited or jackhammered from the mountain during the sculpturing process. Quite an effort for 60 years ago, and the guy who did it certainly had a vision.
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I do wonder why TR is one of the heads, as the others were truly "great" presidents...forming the country, expanding the country, saving the country...maybe he was the guy when they started the whole deal. Or maybe he owned the mountain?
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I wonder who would make it from the 20th century...FDR for bringing the country through the great depression? Truman for "pressing the button"? Kennedy for his brief but inspirational leadership? Maybe Johnson whose legacy is deeply tainted by Vietnam for all his civil rights work? Who knows what history will tell our kids and grandkids. I'm willing to bet though that it's won't be "W" and Darth Vader however....maybe they'll be a "Mt Dumb Ass" for them...of course it will still be bigger than the monument to the 5,000 kids they've killed thus far...
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"Wondering where Lincoln's tophat is?" Lumpy out
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