Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Gettysburg Stands Firm: Battlefield Says All Monuments Staying Put
Fox News ^ | August 16, 2017

Posted on 08/17/2017 12:36:49 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Officials at the Gettysburg National Military Park said Wednesday that the monuments at the expansive Pennsylvania battlefield will stay despite unrest over Confederate memorials.

"These memorials, erected predominantly in the early and mid-20th Century, are an important part of the cultural landscape," battlefield spokeswoman Katie Lawhon told the Hanover Evening Sun.

(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: antifa; confederate; gettysburg; monuments; pennsylvania
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-95 next last
To: lgjhn23

How would he bypass it if he would basically have to go south while Feds were still coming north from DC direction? He’d have to make a sweeping move and the MD mountains weren’t always so easy to get through without a fight anyway.


21 posted on 08/17/2017 12:54:43 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: the OlLine Rebel

Wow that is depressing. Just bulldoze the whole place. We are done. It is 1984.


22 posted on 08/17/2017 12:57:53 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: the OlLine Rebel

I’ll leave that up to engineer-types.


23 posted on 08/17/2017 12:57:57 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: freepertoo

Did she ever see any of the ghosts purported to hang out there?


24 posted on 08/17/2017 12:58:29 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: A_Former_Democrat

Years later vets from both sides met at the battle field and not one of them had anger towards the other. What they did have was respect , something which is lacking by the new American Taliban


25 posted on 08/17/2017 1:01:22 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Trump20162020

No — they will leave Gettysburg alone since that is where the North stomped the South. The Left likes that one. The others? Not so sure.


26 posted on 08/17/2017 1:02:42 PM PDT by plain talk (hen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lgjhn23

Honestly believe that if Stonewall had been alive with Lee at that battle then the south would have marched on DC and possibly won.


27 posted on 08/17/2017 1:03:21 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Trump20162020

Don’t change a damn thing!


28 posted on 08/17/2017 1:04:11 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: manc

This is what gets me:

The Union men - in the heat of battle! - had less animus toward rebels than these commie bastards so safely removed from the time and place!


29 posted on 08/17/2017 1:04:11 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630

Thank you. Looks like that may be ready for prime time as a letter.


30 posted on 08/17/2017 1:06:19 PM PDT by Retain Mike
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: the OlLine Rebel

Indeed, Grant when he met Lee had the greatest respect for him, and the southern soldiers.
Yea, and years later there were numerous reunions of veterans meeting each other.

So if those men who were trying to kill each other can respect each other, then what the hell is wrong with the new American Taliban who want he monuments down.

It goes to show how the people of this country have changed, and how much of a lack of respect there is today.
Even on here yesterday I saw one freeper say they do not give a F### about this.
That ignorant attitude pretty much sums up how people today think the country is all about them and what the country can do for them


31 posted on 08/17/2017 1:07:57 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: robroys woman

If these little leftist scumbags try to desecrate the Gettysburg battlefield, I’m thinking a bunch of them are going to be killed by rebels and yankees. No need for the cops,they will stand down anyway. If they want anarchy, let’s give it to them.


32 posted on 08/17/2017 1:12:51 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Trump20162020

They had better beef up their security and be prepared to put down armed invaders.


33 posted on 08/17/2017 1:13:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: A_Former_Democrat

None of my direct ancestors fought in the civil war; by the time it broke out they had migrated west or to Canada. But plenty of ancestral uncles and cousins did... on both sides. The monuments to history need to stay.


34 posted on 08/17/2017 1:30:56 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: lgjhn23
I highly doubt that mistake will be made twice. Lee should have by-passed it and moved right on to Washington full force. The battle should be in Washington.

The battle still is in Washington. I doubt that the Trump Interior Department will cave.

As for Lee, at the time Washington, D.C. was ringed with forts and had a garrison not much smaller than Lee's army was. No way he could have taken it. Not with the Army of the Potomac in full chase as well.

35 posted on 08/17/2017 1:36:25 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Trump20162020

Gettysburg is in my back yard and it was good to hear that.


36 posted on 08/17/2017 1:37:29 PM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Clarancebeaks

Silencers on high powered rifles are now mainstream & easy to get BATFE approval for.

There are millions of hunters who own rifles with state of the art optics, and bagging their quarry at 500 yards is routine for them.

A small pistol jammed into an Antifa’s midsection and fired makes little noise, especially during a riot.

Stand your ground/no duty to retreat laws are now the norm in many states.

It may soon be necessary for the individual citizen to be willing to cut flesh in order to remain alive. Things are getting dangerous here, but thank God this isn’t Europe.


37 posted on 08/17/2017 1:43:06 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Retain Mike
There is method to the madness of pulling down the statues. Physical reminders of history are being erased. History is already excised from the schools. History is n obstruction to total control. When the populace is finally quite unaware of anything that has gone before they have no sense or way to know what has worked and what has not worked in the past. They do not know how schemes of old that are identical to those proffered now worked out in the past.

For Utopia to be accepted the people must know no history. We are almost there. It is several decades since any history was taught in the schools, but children still ask, "Who is that man on the horse?" and Daddy or Mommy takes the child over to the plaque. Perhaps just identifying the statued hero will incite curiosity in the child and he will study on his own. Those statues have to come down and it will not end with the Civil War. ALL the statues must come down, eventually such statues as FDR and Wilson, even. Totalitarians of whatever stripe, Communist or Moslem have to erase history. History can have begun no earlier than the advent of the total state. So long as the people do not know what has gone before they do not know that they are in hell.

38 posted on 08/17/2017 1:49:40 PM PDT by arthurus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: A_Former_Democrat

I’ve got ancestors from both sides of the CW.


39 posted on 08/17/2017 1:59:54 PM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: the OlLine Rebel

And he was without his “eyes” Jeb’s Calvary until the only choice was to fight right there. The re-enactment of Picket’s charge after the war comes to mind when the opposing lines came together. It makes me wonder how many deaths will have to happen in the present before the present participants will have the same feeling of sorrow and waste those veterans did on that day.


40 posted on 08/17/2017 2:00:26 PM PDT by t4texas (Remember the Alamo!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-95 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson