"So DC"

When you live in Washington, DC there are certain romantic experiences one can have that may be described as "so DC." Touring the monuments on a first date, drinks at the Hotel Washington, walk of shaming it home from the Watergate are all excellent examples. I have one more to add to the list: kissing a man in uniform goodbye in front of the Pentagon as you see him off to work.

BTW, despite having lived here for over seven years, this was the first time I have ever boarded the metro at the Pentagon. It was such an intriguing cross section of subcultures--military personnel in various types of uniforms (saluting one another--when my man saluted a passerby I seriously felt like I was tripping), civilians in the finest Banana Republic, and war protesters. Now, as anyone who knows me or regularly reads HP knows, I fully support free speech and the rights of people to publicly object to the war. However, there seems something, I don't know, wrong, about protesting in front of the Pentagon. I mean, milling right by you are people who have made a serious commitment to protect and defend our country. Even though I don't agree with our role in Iraq, it seems like a slap in the face to me to protest it to people who are going off to defend our freedoms.