Friday, June 18, 2010

FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS

Fredericksburg is a small German town about 30 miles from Kerrville.  It's kind of a tourist town with lots of little shops but it's also the home town of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz from the World War II era and, in his honor, they have the National Museum of the Pacific War.  It’s a phenomenal museum that explains all phases of what happened in the Pacific during World War II.  They give details of each and every big battle with the Japanese that took place in the Pacific and what the outcome was and how it effected the overall war in the Pacific.  We spent quite a while going through the museum and could have easily spent more time there.  It’s an excellent museum!  Janie is seen standing next to an exact replica of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki to end the war.  After the museum, we did a little shopping and had a wonderful lunch.
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