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| Jolly | Jun 23 2005, 10:54 AM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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My kids liked this kind of stuff... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/marvino...o20050623.shtml |
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| big al | Jun 23 2005, 11:54 AM Post #2 |
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Good suggestion. Gettysburg is most familar for me, because it and Antietam are closest. Some of the battlefields are disappearing under development. The revolutionary war sites are generally less accessible as history. I think in part this is because the scale of the battles was less. You're more likely to simply see a monument rather than the field of battle. One other suggestion for those in the mid-west - Wright-Patterson AFB. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Jolly | Jun 23 2005, 12:26 PM Post #3 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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I would have added Vicksburg to the list. Probably only second to Gettysburg... |
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| Luke's Dad | Jun 23 2005, 12:36 PM Post #4 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Been to Fredericksburg and Manassas. Antietem is on the list for this summer. |
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| AlbertaCrude | Jun 23 2005, 12:42 PM Post #5 |
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Bull-Carp
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Have always wanted to see those sites. Some day I will. Have seen the Little Big Horn site. |
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| big al | Jun 23 2005, 12:56 PM Post #6 |
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Yes, Vicksburg deserves to be on the list. It's interesting that the war shifted balance on both major fronts at the same time. I thought of Lincoln's comment concerning the father of waters flowing unvexed to the sea. Googling that phrase to me to this site: http://www.wnyc.org/books/9336 Looks like an interesting book. I'm going to check it out. I wonder what the columnist's list of 35 consists of. There are sites that I've read of in an historical context, but I have no idea whether they are sufficiently preserved and marked to give any sense of what happened there on the ground. Does anyone know if the D-Day museum I've heard about in New Orleans is worth a visit? Big Al |
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