Mount Vernon's Grand Opening - The Videos
I attended the Grand Opening ceremony of Mt. Vernon's new Ford Orientation Center and Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center on Friday, Oct. 27th, 2006.
I bring to you a few of the videos I recorded on my small camera during the ceremony.
I apologise for the quality and for not recording the entire speech by David McCullough, but my hand was getting tired from holding it up above everyone's heads. I thouroughly enjoyed his speech, where he spoke ardently about the value of a good education and about bringing back a system where teachers don't just get a general degree in education, but they actually master a particular field, such as history so they are better equipped to teach it. He got a huge round of applause for this comment.
When you watch this video listen carefully when the second company shoot their rifles. Keep in mind, that this was the grand opening day, so the general public was also roaming the grounds at Mt. Vernon, and there were hundreds of kids around the area (just not in the area of the official ceremony, since that was by special invitation). Immediately after the guns go off, you'll hear kids screaming in the distance, and then...you'll hear the dignitaries at the ceremony laughing!
I bring to you a few of the videos I recorded on my small camera during the ceremony.
I apologise for the quality and for not recording the entire speech by David McCullough, but my hand was getting tired from holding it up above everyone's heads. I thouroughly enjoyed his speech, where he spoke ardently about the value of a good education and about bringing back a system where teachers don't just get a general degree in education, but they actually master a particular field, such as history so they are better equipped to teach it. He got a huge round of applause for this comment.
When you watch this video listen carefully when the second company shoot their rifles. Keep in mind, that this was the grand opening day, so the general public was also roaming the grounds at Mt. Vernon, and there were hundreds of kids around the area (just not in the area of the official ceremony, since that was by special invitation). Immediately after the guns go off, you'll hear kids screaming in the distance, and then...you'll hear the dignitaries at the ceremony laughing!
posted at
11/04/2006 10:27:00 PM
1 Comments:
You guys are starting to be Washington insiders. It must be exciting. Pretty soon you'll be telling them how to run the government. Of course, somebody should, but it is probably too late anyway.
Your visuals still don't come across. Tooo bad -- I would have liked to see those.
Mtrain
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Anonymous, at 6:37 PM, November 06, 2006
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