Posted on 06/30/2017 6:07:53 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
“.:During the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards desecrated the graves of old Chinese emperors and put their bones on trial for crimes against the people!...”
agreed these are our version of red guards, hitler youth, or jacobians
the tragedy these misguided children do not fathom in that Gettysburg was created as a place of reconciliation & forgiveness & brotherhood. The 75th anniversary celebrations are particularly illuminating
Put some of these scum in the grave to end this crap.
People who wear masks are rarely ever engaged in anything honorable.
Call the National Guard out and have them guard the grave sites with loaded weapons.
I live near the Shiloh battle sight in TN. The Confederate dead are buried in a slit trench in the woods, The Union dead in a nice cemetery. Most around here take the pro south side also. I’ve never once heard of any sort of desecration of the Union cemetery.
Here, in hillbilly heaven, just about the worst thing you can do is disrespect the dead, no matter who they are.
As a kid, I was terrified into *never* taking *anything* from a graveyard, not even a nice rock.
Everything there belongs to The Dead.
That belief is *so* strong, that one time, while snapping photos in a local cemetery, I dropped my hair band and left it lay there.
It too belonged to The Dead, now.
I live near Antietam.
All the references to the Confederate army have been changed on the new placards.
No longer do they say “Confederate Army” or “Rebel Army”.
They’ve all been changed recently to The Enemy.
They also refused to allow a statue of Robert E Lee.
[a local guy bought land and paid for a magnificent statue of him, in a nearby private piece of land]
Eff that battlefield and the pukes who rewrote history.
They’ll never get another penny from me.
There is a Confederate section in the big cemetery in Frederick MD.
Flags go up on holidays.
Couple years back, some pack of maggots stomped them all.
That skank in NC started this crap with banning flag after that punk shot up the church.
I’ll never forgive her for that.
As you might imagine, the Gettysburg Bike Week right after that had thousands of bikers sporting brand new shiny battle flags on their vests, seen on by the vendors who sold out of them in days.
Eff them all.
If they start destroying sacred property in the cemetery shoot them.
Head shots preferred.
If it's the one that used to be behind Cemetary Ridge, it's gone, in 2000...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Tower
I look forward to the videos of them getting their asses stomped by freedom loving American patriots.
Shooting thr bastards risks hitting a innocent byatander better to fix bayonet b& get stuck in
Time for some rebel whoopass! :-)
I was at the first post-WWII Gettysburg reenactment (1963) as a member of the 3rd South Carolina - also as a member of Hawkins Zouaves (9th NY) - one day with each one. My brother and I worked both sides. Safety was a major concern - we weren't allowed to have ramrods as one might get shot out. We just poured powder down the barrel, tapped the butt against the ground to settle the powder, then capped up and shot.
I was with the 9th on the second day and pretty early, before Pickett's Charge, we had a cease fire. A rumor went around that someone was shot, and we all thought "There goes any future reenactments".
It turned out that the guy hit was from the 3rd SC, someone we always kidded as being a hard-luck type (was "wounded" and fell in a cow flop in another reenactment).
What happened was that one of the guys, in a regular shooting match, shot an improperly cast Minie ball that blew the front part out, leaving the base stuck in the barrel. In the reenactment, the constant firing of the blanks discharged the base, which by time it reached the Confederates, was pretty spent. Best of the bad luck - the guy showed us his uniform where his left shoulder showed a semi-circle die-cut out of the cloth. Underneath, he had a bruise as big as the palm of your hand. We all marveled at his luck as if that piece of lead had hit him in the face or directly over his heart, he'd probably have been killed.
Typical of our mindset then, we all told him to mount that slug (found by his feet) and rightfully claim he "was wounded at Gettysburg".
+1
We visited Antietam last year. My husband took pictures of the handprints on our car after it was pushed up one of the hills.
I assume you were at Crampton’s Gap or Burkittsville, where that’s supposed to occur?
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