*again, sorry. technical issues!!*
Woo!! On the way back from the Newseum…WHAT an experience. There was so much amazing information and material to see, it was almost impossible to take it all in.
The first stop we made might just have been my favorite…the Pulitzer Prize Winning photographs gallery. There were so many amazing pictures. Some of the ones I can recall? A defiant Obama being battered by rain as he spoke to a crowd on the campaign trail. A naked Vietnamese girl screaming as she walked down a dirt road. The joyous reunion of a soldier and his family on the airport runway. A firefighter cradling the body of a burned child at the Oklahoma City bombings. The list can go on and on, and no photograph was better than another. Each managed to impeccably capture the epitome of an emotion. I could have spent hours in that gallery!
Another incredible exhibit in the Newseum was the September 11th memorial. I was a clueless fourth grader in 2001, so it has always been difficult for me to look at the event from an adult perspective after going through it as a child. I didn’t understand it, I didn’t know who Al-Queda was or what the World Trade Centers were, and it didn’t seem like that big of a happening in my sheltered childhood. This exhibit really helped in my comprehension of just how awesome and terrible this incredible act of hatred was. I think the most intense facet of the exhibit was the eleven minute movie that examined the journalistic aspects of that day. It was gut-wrenching and brutally honest; exactly what I believe good journalism is. It was an incredibly humbling and inspiring experience.