Today we had the pleasure of visiting the Tower of London. This was an exhibit that I experienced back in 2016 and honestly, not a lot has changed about the place itself. How could it? It’s remained unchanged for hundreds of years so I don’t know why I expected something different. I will say that I appreciate the history much more and found myself feeling a sense of displacement. It was was as if I was walking around on sacred territory and my worthiness had not met the standards of that place. I find it incredible how much history has occurred in the Tower. The amount of lives that had been taken. The many souls who spent their final days in torment. It’s hard to grasp how much pain and suffering occurred in that place. The way that medieval battles took place there. The way that people were publicly beheaded hundreds of years ago. And of course, I’m just another free, blessed American there to feed my touristy hunger. I wish I could understand everything that has happened there but that would be completely impossible. But I still feel shocked from what I did gather and I’m going to share a little about that
Josef Jakobs, the man pictured above, was executed for his role as an enemy spy in World War II. He was the last person ever captured by the British government to be executed at the Tower of London. In the year 1941, he was killed via. firing squad while sitting in a chair. That chair now on display at the White Tower portion of the exhibit.
Speaking of the White Tower, that was my favorite exhibit at the tower of London. We saw the Crown Jewels, the Beauchamp tower, the torture chamber, and obviously the White Tower. It holds the most weight for me as the armory was absolutely jaw-dropping. Seeing the kings armor and the many weapons used throughout the years, I felt like a kid in a toy store.
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