After paying homage to the great Founding Father (of UVA) Thomas Jefferson, we trekked over to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, close by.  As you can see by the display in the picture above, Orian actually lived through the Great Depression.  The image also reveals that they had digital watches in the 1930s.

This is a candid shot of Orian, taken by surprise.  Note the idiotic look.

Roosevelt's dog, named, uh, Poof, was important enough to be immortalized in bronze.  In fact, a little known fact of the Roosevelt administration is that the true creator of the New Deal was not the President himself--the true creator ran around on four legs and ate Puppy Chow off of silver platters...and has been depicted here.

Orian is a fan of the New Deal.

Just in case, you know, someone thought Roosevelt liked wasteful violence, bloodshed, destruction, and chaos....
 

Just to be perfectly clear on that...

After touring the FDR Memorial in reverse chronological order, I persuaded Orian that it was worth freezing our butts off to walk a couple blocks down to the Lincoln and Korean War memorials, where taxis were probably more plentiful, and which I hadn't visited in ages...

A dramatic shot of a soldier in the darkness and the silhouette of the Lincoln Memorial smoldering on the horizon.

A B.A.R.-toting soldier in winter gear.

These monuments are very photogenic...

Those of us who saw Planet of the Apes will be relieved to note that this is indeed Abraham Lincoln.

And here it ends...

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(The Washington Monument at night.)