Posted on 02/28/2006 8:59:18 PM PST by Lorianne
Somehow, it seems longer ago than that . . .
Love those AP proof readers.
Maybe it's late and I am not reading clearly but gambling a mile away is endangering the Gettysburg Battlefield? I have been to Gettysburg and the battle field is Park Land. what does gambling have to do with it?
Charlemagne: Somehow, it seems longer ago than that . . .
Well, cut 'em a break .. they were journalism schooled that the 1960's was the beginning of civilization and that anything before then didn't exist ....... /sarc off
If the date is correct the fight lasted much longer than three days.
Yeah, I was wondering how I missed it......
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***The New Mexico battlefield, at Glorieta, was where Union forces were able to turn back the Confederate invasion of New Mexico. ****
Ands who was the officer responsible for breaking the back of the confederates?
CHIVINGTON! of later Sand Creek fame!
Dam fine job on both counts!
Hey, it must not have been that far back- I remember Ol' Shonewall's fights, the year I graduated....
"There he stands, like a shone wall."
More accurately:
"There bands Jackson like a shone wall. Sally behind the Virginians!"
"The circle forts defending Washington, DC..."
These were over run by development decades ago.
Ditter, you kind of have to be there to visualize it, but the area the battle covered is so huge that the battlefield park itself in no way encompasses it. One of the points of going to the town of Gettysburg and to Adams County, PA is to drive around the area and try to truly understand what happened during that three-day period. Three miles is nothing. You can easily see three miles from many points on the battlefield. You will certainly have to wrestle with the monstrous traffic issues a casino would cause on the tiny two-lane historic roads there.
Some of the important areas on this sacred ground, this gigantic cemetery, have already had a KFC built on them. We cannot prevent development in the region, but it would be good to avoid the types of structures that will create problems. My word, things are already bad enough there.
The action that was fought at the Alamo was fought in a very discrete area: that is, the Alamo itself, not the fifty thousand acres surrounding it, was the site of the historic action.
We can debate the relative importance of the two battle-sites for a long time, but I believe that, even while the Alamo is a tribute to courage, Gettysburg was more important to the establishment of America as a nation in its present form. And I do think that the beauty and poignance of the Alamo are much diminished because so much commercial development sprang up around it.
You're right when you contend that it won't be possible to prevent development in Adams County. But this opens the entire question: do the local people have the right, through their elected representatives, to decide that they do not want a casino, with all of the problems casinos represent, in their town?
I am sorry to trouble you, but the state of Texas sponsors gambling, with it's lottery, and the out of state Mega Millions lottery. I also believe that the state allows gambling at the various horseracing tracks in Texas.
what utter baloney. Chivington was a murderous sociopath.
***what utter baloney. Chivington was a murderous sociopath.***
Think so? At Glorietta his troops broke the back of the confederates.
And at Sand Creek he showed the world how to deal with terrorists who happened to be Indians.
Go to the Library and get a copy of Massacres of the Mountains by Dunn Jr.
Read it then see if you have that same opinion.
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