Far Left Antifa Thugs Are Planning to Desecrate Graves and Burn Flags At Gettysburg On July 1

GP ^ | 06/26/17 | Jim Hoft

[Enlightened1]

Far left Antifa activists are planning to protest at Gettysburg National Battlefield on the anniversary of the historic battle and burn confederate flags on the historic day.

The violent far left group has been vandalizing Confederate monuments across the country this year.

Harrisburg100 reported:

Over the past few weeks, several US cities have been a hotbed of controversy over the removal of several Confederate monuments. After decades standing sentinel over New Orleans, the last of four Confederate monuments have been removed after being labeled as “Monuments of Racism and Hate”. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said of the removal of his city’s monuments: “To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our more prominent places—in honor—is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, is an affront to our present and it is a bad prescription for our future”. The next state to follow in the footsteps in the movement is Arizona, where leaders call for the swift removal of six Confederate monuments around the state…

…A local group of self-proclaimed anti-fascism activists called “ANTIFA” are planning on holding a rally at Gettysburg National Battlefield on July 1st in protest of President Trump and asks it’s members to “Bring and Burn Confederate Flags”. The reasoning behind why this group picked the date and location for their rally is for the importance Gettysburg played in the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg started on July 1, 1863, when Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia met General George Meade’s Union Army of the Potomac. During the three-day battle, about 165,000 soldiers clashed in and around the small town of Gettysburg...

[Elsie]

Most of the Union soldiers are buried in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg. What happened to the Confederate dead?
The southern dead were removed to cemeteries in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia between 1871 and 1873. Most of the Confederate dead were interred at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia in a special section set aside specifically for the casualties of Gettysburg.

 

https://www.nps.gov/gett/faqs.htm

[wastoute]

Actually, I wouldn’t say “most”. I went to visit the grave of family member killed there and was surprised at how few graves there actually are. Also thee are more than a few buried there in the years since. The whole place is just a couple acres, IIRC.

[PLMerite]

Time to get tactical:

[Elsie]

It does have the pall of death hanging over it.

[Elsie]

Devil’s Den in the bright daylight was eerie.

I’d hate to experience it after dusk...

[Elsie]

One can get other creepy feelings in the SouthWest, among old Anasazi dwellings; the one's that are WAY off the beaten path trampled by thousands of tourists.

[Elsie]

...those that can’t pass the quiz must turn around and go home. be given a book about the history that led to the area around Gettysburg.

After reading it; they will be re-tested.

[Elsie]

Almost like a roll call of honor.

Honorable men were on BOTH sides in this struggle.

[Netz]

Great idea. Those that fail will have to clean up and maintain the grounds of the battlefield for 3 months...

[Elsie]

After 130 replies; it's time...

 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

November 19, 1863

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Bliss Copy

Ever since Lincoln wrote it in 1864, this version has been the most often reproduced, notably on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. It is named after Colonel Alexander Bliss, stepson of historian George Bancroft. Bancroft asked President Lincoln for a copy to use as a fundraiser for soldiers (see "Bancroft Copy" below). However, because Lincoln wrote on both sides of the paper, the speech could not be reprinted, so Lincoln made another copy at Bliss's request. It is the last known copy written by Lincoln and the only one signed and dated by him. Today it is on display at the Lincoln Room of the White House.

 

http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm