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"Gettysburg to Tell Story of Slavery During War," was the headline The Washington Times put on its story about how the National Park Service "has embarked on an effort to change its interpretive materials at major Civil War battlefields to get rid of a Southern bias and emphasize the horrors of slavery." A $95 million visitors center and museum is going up to recast the battle in a new light.

"For the past 100 years," says Gettysburg Park Superintendent John Latschar, "we've been presenting this battlefield as the high watermark of the Confederacy and focusing on the personal valor of the soldiers who fought here. ... We want to get away from the traditional descriptions of who shot whom, where and into discussions of why they were shooting one another."

Why the change? Unhappy that so many visitors to Gettysburg are white males, and so few are African-Americans, Latschar called in three historians to study how the Park Service was presenting the battle. The three wise men decided that the interpretive programs at Gettysburg had a "pervasive Southern sympathy."

Isn't the White House going to step in and stop this stupid bastard (Latschar)?

What he is proposing is inappropriate and irrelevant to the site involved.

The Gettysburg Battlefield is about thousand of Americans - MAINLY White Males - who fought and died for what they believed was correct. It was significant in the magnitude of human carnage on the battlefield and the the fact that it put an end to General Lee's (God Bless him) effort to bring to the north some of the same kind of human misery the North had inflicted on Virginia during the preceeding years.

Who the Hell is this Latschar character ANYWAY?? Who appointed him to his current position, and what is his education and political orientation?

Like the moles who run biased leftist news articles, Latschar is able to spin his web in the darkness of relative obscurity, invisible to the public he is hoodwinking.