Memorial Day- OKC style.

Got our washing, including the three pairs of jeans, done this morning and then did a google and found that not too far away there was a Memorial Day Service.

The 45th infantry Museum.

Close to our 'lodgings' there was a Museum dedicated to the 45thinfantry. Unfortunately we had missed the memorial service.

It had a very good display of weapons and equipment,mall the way from the civil war through to modern day weaponry.

A Huey, like the one about to strafe the Dandenong plaza.

One othe the 45th's more infamous/distressing  accomplishments were that during WW2 it was they that initially liberated Dachau Concentration Camp.   And if my memory serves me there were stories  that there were committed 'war crimes' on the captured guards and German POWs.  For obvious reasons this part of the story is not retold here.   Thereis a room dedicated to the liberation and it is clearly very distressing: hearing the re telling of what the liberators saw and experienced is amazing.     

This is one of the best military museum I have seen....

Then back to the OKC memorial Museum, which was not open when we arrived yesterday.   This is a two hour and very draining experience, all because one person had the perverted belief in the righteousness of his views that the Government was infringing his rights and needed to be stopped.

Will Rogers 

The weather is still very threatening, stormy and wet.  There is major flooding and road closures so hopefully we can escape tomorrow. But about 7pm the weather fined up so we went to a nearby Will Rogers Memorial Botanical Gardens, which was lovely, with tress, ducks, geese, turtles, and fish...not all in the same spot.

Will Rogers died in 1935 but his memory lingers especially in these parts,  as a  social commentator, actor, cowboy, and humorist, some of his memorable sayings are.

“There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. 
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” 

And

“There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.” 

Then we went for a bit if a drive into the CBD into the dusk, and OKC makes Hobart seem a vibrant bustling place.  It is very quiet.

Sun setting on the CBD of OKC with a backdrop of storm clouds.

Back to the bunker; fridge in front of the door....and taking watches sleeping.

North ish tomorrow to Tulsa.....