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To: Trumpinator
You can't commemorate a battle unless it's exactly on the spot? Liberals.....

The plaque reads "on this spot" which is not true.

The Civil War really happened.

Real people died in historically recorded places.

If the plaque said: "eleven miles away from here" instead of "on this spot" there would be no problem.

But as an American, I have a real problem with people falsifying and distorting American military history.

25 posted on 11/25/2015 10:56:43 AM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake
The plaque reads "on this spot" which is not true.

Unless there are authenticated maps of the battle, then there is no proof it didn't happen.

I recently read a Stonewall Jackson biography which mentioned that it took several months for Stonewall to put together battle reports.

Stonewall was so behind, he had an author on staff attempt to put together very detailed descriptions of the battle. Once completed, Stonewall eliminated huge sections of the reports and kept them very minimal.

29 posted on 11/25/2015 11:12:58 AM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: wideawake

I’m with you. To the point where, to the bemusement of the family that paid for him, I once got into an argument with a Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guide on Little Round Top over the point where Chamberlain refused the line.

But I’m also very much inclined to view this thing as just a gotcha swipe at Trump. He’s too into his businesses to be a military histoy hobbiest, and probably just took some underlings assurance on the plaque.


44 posted on 11/25/2015 11:30:38 AM PST by tanknetter
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