This is the battlefield I visit most often. It should not be violated.
In the picture above, you are looking from the British lines in what was an apple orchard toward the charging Americans.
1 posted on
02/20/2007 5:37:03 PM PST by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
The owners are pretty much entitled to do with it as they want. If some society wants to dictate its use, it should buy it.
I think our Founding Fathers would have agreed with that.
2 posted on
02/20/2007 5:40:43 PM PST by
Dog Gone
To: Cagey; indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; aculeus; ELS; mainepatsfan; timpad; oceanview; ...
The Flag of the Grand Union, 1775-1777. The Red Cross of St. George and the White Cross of St. Andrew with 13 red/white stripes.
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3 posted on
02/20/2007 5:43:09 PM PST by
Pharmboy
([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
To: Pharmboy
5 posted on
02/20/2007 5:46:46 PM PST by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Pharmboy
Let's not forget the oak where General Mercer was mortally wounded.
I frequently walk around the battlefield, as it is very close to my apartment.
6 posted on
02/20/2007 5:47:41 PM PST by
Clemenza
(NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values!)
To: Pharmboy
BUMP! (First time I ever saw a fight on one of your threads!)
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