Posted on 08/17/2017 12:36:49 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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.
Wow that is depressing. Just bulldoze the whole place. We are done. It is 1984.
I’ll leave that up to engineer-types.
Did she ever see any of the ghosts purported to hang out there?
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
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.
Honestly believe that if Stonewall had been alive with Lee at that battle then the south would have marched on DC and possibly won.
Don’t change a damn thing!
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!
Thank you. Looks like that may be ready for prime time as a letter.
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
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.
They had better beef up their security and be prepared to put down armed invaders.
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.
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.
Gettysburg is in my back yard and it was good to hear that.
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.
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.
I’ve got ancestors from both sides of the CW.
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.
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