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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPerhaps 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
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sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)1. I think they are also okay within Confedrate cemeteries.
larwdem
(759 posts)2. We vist Gettysburg 2 to 4 times a year
The battlefields and the museums are the places thy belong. we need to learn from the history.
marybourg
(12,634 posts)3. I have to admit I love the one at Manassas,
next to the train tracks from where I first saw it rising out of the morning mist. It's an ordinary soldier.
B2G
(9,766 posts)4. Cities like Savannah are others.
Some places are museum themselves.