Then again, in 1990 our neighborhood was developed on that battlefield, so I dunno. Its historic, but practically ALL of that area was at one point used for something historically. Cant preserve everything, especially if its just land and nothing more.

@Pearl, I went to Chancellor Elementary K-3rd. I think my best friend may have gone there. I dont remember, I remember a bunch of people including teachers transferring. Im not sure what elem or middle school she went to, but she eventually went to Chancellor High, then Courtland. Class of 2000. Did you go to any of these?

And yes everything is historical… I mean you have colonial history, revolutionary war history, civil war history.

@ Rojas: That video was so wrong. Yet so funny. I like slapstick in small doses where you don’t see it coming. I mean, I’ve never even heard of someone using a loaf of French bread like that! (Only thing funnier would have been if it kept being chopped and you had to keep buying more, like poor Charlie Brown.)

I think 4th and 7th grade is when you learn state history in school, only I moved away in 3rd. The state I am now however, its history was mostly how it used to be almost half the size of the US, its own country, and how it should, once again, become its own country. No field trips whatsoever

When I visited in 1999, I revisited all these great places, and my mom got me a Bastille Key necklace charm from the Mt Vernon Gift shop. Since it represented freedom I wore it for several years, even to Paris. No one seem to know what it was, other than just an odd looking key. Not even when I was right outside the Bastille. In fact, in college I took a course on the French Revolution, and they never even brought up the whole key and Washington story.

Note to Rojas: Wear a cup at all times in the Funimation office.

Oh, and I just wanted to let everyone know, should any one here be casted for the new National Treasure 3 (2011) that the Bastille Key, the historic symbol of liberty, still hangs in the hall of Mount Vernon where George Washington placed it. It is the key to the west portal of the Bastille, long used as a political prison, in France. When the Paris prison was stormed, it marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The Marquis de Lafayette, who had served under Washington in the Revolutionary War, sent the key to Washington in 1790.