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This is the back of Palace of Versailles, we are waiting for our turn to enter the Palace.159 viewsPalace of Versailles is where the peace treaty was signed to end WWI. It is said to be the root cause of WWII due to its overly hash conditions on Germany.
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The Navajo sandstone banks are just beautiful!159 views
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We were at Antelope Slot Canyon. It was very dark in it. I wish I had a tripod for picture. It was difficult to take good pictures handheld with shutter speed at 1-3 seconds.159 views
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Samuel Tom Holiday, one of the remaining code talkers, is 90! JoAnn bought one of his books, 'Under the Eagle'. He signed it for us. Amazing story of the code talkers was made into the movie "Windtakers" (starring Nicolas Cage).159 viewsIt was a surprise stop on our way to Monument Valley to meet Sam Holiday. During WWII, the Japanese was able to break our coded transmissions. We countered by making complicated codes that take hours to encode and decode. It became almost impractical in the battle field. 29 Navajos developed a code that can be encoded and decoded in minutes. For this reason, we were able to win the island hopping battles that really shortened the war in the Pacific. It is said that the Navajo code saved many hundred thousands of life, if not millions, in the war. The effort was so secret that even after the war, it was kept secret for many years. Many Navajos in the war were not recognized, many didn't even receive veteran's benefits. Finally, the Navajo Code Talkers were awarded Congressional Gold Medals of Honor in 2000, and Congress passed the Code Talker Recognition Act of 2008 which expressed the nation’s gratitude for “the dedication and valor of Native American code talkers”.
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Looking across Lago (Lake) Maggiore at Isola (Island) Bella from where our hotel is.159 views
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Montepulciano159 views
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Across from the Abbey, we can see the Polish Cemetery at Montecassino. It holds the graves of 1144 Poles who died, storming the bombed-out Benedictine abbey atop the mountain in May 1944, during the Battle of Montecassino.159 views
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