In an undated handout photo, a plaque at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., commemorates a stretch of the Potomac as the “River of Blood†due to casualties there during the Civil War. Posted on 11/25/2015 10:39:04 AM PST by Trumpinator
In an undated handout photo, a plaque at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., commemorates a stretch of the Potomac as the “River of Blood†due to casualties there during the Civil War.
Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club's two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating "The River of Blood."
"Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot," the inscription reads. "The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as 'The River of Blood.'"
The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump's full name, concludes: "It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!"
Like many of Mr. Trump's claims, the inscription was evidently not fact-checked.
"No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there," said Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to an 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site.
"The only thing that was remotely close to that," Mr. Gillespie said, was 11 miles up the river at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in 1861, a rout of Union forces in which several hundred were killed.
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Look for the silver lining. If Herself goes down, the dems will probably nominate Kim Kardsashian, and we can have an all-celeb election. They'd probably go for Caitlyn, but I think he's still a Republican.
Is there another source for that pic? It looks photoshopped.
There is nothing wrong with this memorial. In fact, the inscription was very well-written, I think.
It isn’t a memorial to anyone but Trump. He wouldn’t even have been allowed to build a golf course on a true battlefield site.
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