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Scranton | That place was amazing. First try we took our then 7 year old severely autistic daughter along with our two boys. She did ok for a while, but when she started laughing (she can't help it, her way of handling her own internal stresses) during the film about the family that was killed, we hustled her out of there. (I also had to hustle her out of the Changing of the guards at Arlington Natl cemetary when she started making noise after we were warned about noise).
I went back alone the next day while wife and kids went to zoo. The story I never forgot was the parents of a young jewish girl that could see the writing on the wall and decided they needed to send their daughters to relatives in another country. So the kids would make the transition easier, the parents decided it would be best to be cold and distant to the kids in the months before. I can't imagine how hard it would be to do that to your kids knowing full well you might never see them again. They were stronger people than myself. | |
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Washington DC trip
