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Riding to the echoes of the guns...; ...in your trusty minivan...
Topic Started: Jun 23 2005, 10:54 AM (124 Views)
Jolly
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My kids liked this kind of stuff...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/marvino...o20050623.shtml
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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big al
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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.

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Jolly
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I would have added Vicksburg to the list.

Probably only second to Gettysburg...
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Luke's Dad
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Been to Fredericksburg and Manassas. Antietem is on the list for this summer.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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AlbertaCrude
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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
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Jolly
Jun 23 2005, 12:26 PM
I would have added Vicksburg to the list.

Probably only second to Gettysburg...

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?

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