Pentagon

What's got 5 sides, a geometric degree of 108 and has 23,000 employees? That's right you guessed it, The Pentagon. On August 6th, a group of 20 journalism students at Georgetown University got an inside look at the nation' largest office building.
The day first began when we were lead into the Pentagon'spress briefing room where we experienced a briefing on the war in Iraq held by a colonel in Iraq. Afterwards our group got a special tour of the Pentagon including stops at the 9/11 memorial as well as the 'mini mall'
inside the Pentagon which includes a jeweler, a barber shop and even a CVS.
I thought the press briefing held by Col. John Charlton was very interesting to experience. He spoke to the press and answered their questions via satellite. It was interesting because it let us see how a press briefing of that kind would go and what the format was for asking questions.
Our tour was very informative and the stop at the 9/11 memorial was very humbling. The memorial itself is in the exact spot where the plane hit the building on that Tuesday in September 6 years ago. Our guides were very informative (and cute too!) and walked us through the whole building stopping to explain paintings and displays. It was a great trip, despite waking up before the sun at 6:00.