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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 11:01 PM Aug 2017

Perhaps the one place where Confed. statues should stay




GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Officials with the National Park Service said the Confederate monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania will not be removed from the battlefield.....

...The Gettysburg battlefield has more than 1,300 monuments that tell the story of the deadliest engagement in the Civil War. Thirty of them are dedicated to Confederate states, military units and individuals. More than 7,000 soldiers died in the Battle of Gettysburg from July 1 to July 3, 1863.

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Perhaps the one place where Confed. statues should stay (Original Post) packman Aug 2017 OP
I think they are also okay within Confedrate cemeteries. sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 #1
We vist Gettysburg 2 to 4 times a year larwdem Aug 2017 #2
I have to admit I love the one at Manassas, marybourg Aug 2017 #3
Cities like Savannah are others. B2G Aug 2017 #4

larwdem

(758 posts)
2. We vist Gettysburg 2 to 4 times a year
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 11:23 PM
Aug 2017

The battlefields and the museums are the places thy belong. we need to learn from the history.

marybourg

(12,620 posts)
3. I have to admit I love the one at Manassas,
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 11:28 PM
Aug 2017

next to the train tracks from where I first saw it rising out of the morning mist. It's an ordinary soldier.

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