Post Card Satur... er, Sunday!

Busy-ness and fun ensued yesterday, but kept me from posting on time. But here it is, Post Card Saturday! Only it's on Sunday this week, obviously. And an interesting one it is - I learned something cool! So without further ado...

Another pretty one of Washington, DC, with the cherry blossoms in bloom and the Washington Monument in the distance. Here's the whole back to start with.

The message part. As far as I can tell it says:

Dear Mother!
We arrived here at 7:00. We went to the Rialto and swa "Held by the Law." We are in the hotel now. It is 11:45. Love to all
Clara

So there you go - there's the 20s version of a check in call? Lol. Because again, Mother wouldn't know what her kids were up to immediately unless it happened in the same place, most likely. Again, I just love that stuff!

But that's not what I learned. Look here at the postmark - 1927. And look at what was stamped along with the postcard "Let's Go! Citizens Military Training Camp". I had no idea what that was, so of course, I Googled it. To see the wikipedia link, go here. And here's another page about it that I found - here. I had no idea we did this here in the good ol' US, and I am definitely going to read more about it. 

I realize Wikipedia is not a "real" source, to quote in papers and the like, but it does give a good general explanation of a lot of things. And I have no idea how reliable that second page is. But I got the gist of it, and now I'm interested. That's a good thing, righ?

So there you have it - the latest in the series. More next Saturday!

:)