[Badeye]

Exactly,

Cracks me up reading comments about Gettysburg on this thread. Anyone thats been there a decade ago, and again last year as my wife and I were, can’t help but laugh.

Lets see...between the Holiday Inn and the Harley Davidson dealership...the huge mall, the four dozen franchise eateries....(chuckle)

[vetvetdoug]

Franklin has the most developed battlefield in Tennessee. Pat Cleburne died at the former Pizza Hut, Strahl at the lawyers office, etcetra....The Battle of Knoxville comes in a close second...Col. Sanders, U.S.A. died in front of a church on Kingston Pike...

At the Battle of Chantilly, General Kearny died at the strip mall...

At the Battle of Corinth, Battery Williams is now a wholesale storage company...

[The_Victor]

Cracks me up reading comments about Gettysburg on this thread. Anyone thats been there a decade ago, and again last year as my wife and I were, can’t help but laugh.

Lets see...between the Holiday Inn and the Harley Davidson dealership...the huge mall, the four dozen franchise eateries....(chuckle) M

You should see the Alamo in downtown San Antonio. ~1/4 (maybe an acre of land) of the original fort is preserved as a park along with the chapel. Santa Anna leveled the rest of the fort (I think). The rest of the battlefield is under city streets, buildings, and parking lots. But I defy you to find a more solemn shrine to sacrifice anywhere. The amount of land we set aside to preserve the memory has nothing to do with preserving the memory.