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Gettysburg Stands Firm: Battlefield Says All Monuments Staying Put
Fox News ^ | August 16, 2017

Posted on 08/17/2017 12:36:49 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: proust
Will we wind with another battle at Gettysburg for Civil War #2?

If they start messing with the monuments at Gettysburg, they will start Civil War #2.

61 posted on 08/17/2017 4:01:19 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Given that the entirety of CW sites has been forced by gov’t fiat to renovate their visitor centers to reflect how slavery was all everything was about (poor, poor blacks), it wouldn’t surprise me if they go on to glory in tearing down any monuments to southern men. Yes, that gigantic Gettysburg VC was built not long ago (to my shock last year, destroying the old VC with its electric map) on a huge swath of farmland complete with whoa-is-me apologies about slavery, the only possible reason for all the bloodshed! (It’s also happened at Bull Run and Sharpsburg.)

Saying the Civil War was fought about slavery is equivalent to saying the Revolutionary War was fought about tea; it discredits those who fought for both sides. Given the numerous letters from soldiers from both sides, it is clear that very few gave a damned about slavery or blacks in general... men go to war for honor, duty, to defend their kin and clan and for the right to shape their own destiny.

62 posted on 08/17/2017 4:06:29 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: LambSlave

Cannot disagree with that


63 posted on 08/17/2017 4:09:48 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Nateman

So forbidding slavery should be rescinded? Brilliant. And the right of descendants of freedmen to vote, too?


64 posted on 08/17/2017 4:10:43 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: robroys woman

CW won’t start until the Antifa tries to start their antics up in a southern Red State.


65 posted on 08/17/2017 4:35:05 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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bump from a 5x Gettysburg visitor...


66 posted on 08/17/2017 4:39:57 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Chgogal

They seem to be the only ones on the ballot. I think Reagan was the last time I voted for someone instead of against the other person.


67 posted on 08/17/2017 4:43:04 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: easternsky; All

People need to forget the idea that Leftists give a crap about any of this. They are using it strictly to attack Trump supporters. It is a huge fraud only believed in by the weak-minded suckers, the Useful Idiots.

It started with the removal of Christian symbols from the public square, this is just the latest iteration.

Hatred of American tradition is at the core.


68 posted on 08/17/2017 4:44:54 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: LambSlave

Unfortunately for your argument, the leaders of the Confederacy made it clear that the war was about slavery for them. For the United States it was about preserving the Union not ending slavery.

I was raised in the South and steeped in the history of the Lost Cause but now see it as a gigantic mistake on the part of the Southern states. BTAIM the monuments are ALL part of MY history whether I agreed with those being memorialized or not. I do not have to support slavery to appreciate the Confederate generals.

Some have spoken of the reconciliation of the opponents after the war and the mutual respect they have for their ex-opponents that has happened after WWII as well.

Were it not for a great Gen. Lee there would never have been a great Gen. Grant, without a great James Longstreet there would not have been a great Sherman.

Greater glory comes from struggle with a great opponent.


69 posted on 08/17/2017 4:55:12 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: arrogantsob

What state do you think would bring slavery back? What state Would revoke anybodies vote? Those amendments did the job they were made to do and things are not suddenly going to return to the way it was before. It simply will decentralize federal power like it needs to be.


70 posted on 08/17/2017 5:06:16 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Nateman

When an amendment is removed it would return the laws to the state prior to the amendment. Far too many people are slaves anyway so it might not make any difference.

You are dreaming if you believe it would reduce federal power in any significant manner.


71 posted on 08/17/2017 5:12:57 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: arthurus

So true. That reminds me I should probably order Ken Burns The Civil War on DVD before it mysteriously disappears from the NPB catalogue.


72 posted on 08/17/2017 5:20:13 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: wally_bert

No, we’re dedicated Christians and we know what “ghosts” really are. She never saw any.


73 posted on 08/17/2017 5:37:52 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: arrogantsob

Agree. For me Stonewall was one hell of an officer, crap teacher though at VMI.
He was fighting 3 armies in the valley, and still they could not pin him down, and he would go to a battle expecting to destroy the enemy.


74 posted on 08/17/2017 5:58:07 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: LambSlave

Good point


75 posted on 08/17/2017 6:02:56 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: metmom
DITTOES!!!
76 posted on 08/17/2017 6:24:22 PM PDT by rhubarbk ("Liberals are the stool in the community pool" . . . Hat Tip to rockinqsranch)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
If these people put ropes around whole monuments and pull them down, how is a bit of wire fencing going to stop them?

Right, no barbed wire near the monuments, please! That would destroy the haunting beauty of this battlefield, where so many fell. Simply install lots of surveillance cameras near every monument – if the Park Service hasn't done this already.

That, plus a high security perimeter fence for the entire park. The American public will support the expense.

77 posted on 08/17/2017 7:05:27 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: Retain Mike

Wow that was good!

Jealous. :)


78 posted on 08/17/2017 8:08:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622

Thank you.


79 posted on 08/17/2017 9:00:14 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: Trump20162020

Well, that’s the irony. Most of the idiots wanting to tear down statues wouldn’t know where to look for them unless someone pointed them out.


80 posted on 08/17/2017 10:05:53 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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