Posted on 06/26/2017 5:22:31 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Far left Antifa activists are planning to protest at Gettysburg National Battlefield on the anniversary of the historic battle and burn confederate flags on the historic day.
The violent far left group has been vandalizing Confederate monuments across the country this year.
Harrisburg100 reported:
Over the past few weeks, several US cities have been a hotbed of controversy over the removal of several Confederate monuments. After decades standing sentinel over New Orleans, the last of four Confederate monuments have been removed after being labeled as “Monuments of Racism and Hate”. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said of the removal of his city’s monuments: “To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our more prominent places—in honor—is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, is an affront to our present and it is a bad prescription for our future”. The next state to follow in the footsteps in the movement is Arizona, where leaders call for the swift removal of six Confederate monuments around the state…
…A local group of self-proclaimed anti-fascism activists called “ANTIFA” are planning on holding a rally at Gettysburg National Battlefield on July 1st in protest of President Trump and asks it’s members to “Bring and Burn Confederate Flags”. The reasoning behind why this group picked the date and location for their rally is for the importance Gettysburg played in the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg started on July 1, 1863, when Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia met General George Meade’s Union Army of the Potomac. During the three-day battle, about 165,000 soldiers clashed in and around the small town of Gettysburg...
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Praying the BIKERS FOR TRUMP show up and protect the graves
Ghosts flying around?
How’d they bury so many in one spot? No caskets?
Lots of interesting posts like this. I’ve never experienced a spiritual presence, good or evil. Wish I could, of loved ones that died.
Give those guys a chance to use live ammo on the firing line.
Cannons?
The police need to get these kids to name their funding source. Then, have the FBI pay them a visit. That person will be “encouraged” to name their funding source until the head of the beast is found. The ultimate goal is to cut off the head of the snake.
My theory is that this drive to erase Confederate monuments and history is an attempt to hide the connection between democrats and the Confederacy and later the KKK.
One thing hasn’t changed in 152 years... the Democrats playing identity politics. All they did was switch one horse for another.
I can see into that that theory, yes. Democrats are constantly moving the goal post. They’re ‘’ liberals’’, ‘’progressives’’, they’re “Democratic socialists’’. Same song, just a different melody.
PING!!!
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Vanity : Antifa to march on and desecrate Gettysburg Cemetary on July 1?
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didn’t you hear? They want to name it for Trayvon Martin.
They just might get the war they think they want...
Been there many times. it is incredible. It is truly Hallowed ground. the bravery on both sides iis incredible. 50 some thousand died there. we just walk around silent, there are times I have shed a tear.
Not doing any thing Sun its only 1.5 hours away, my 10mm has been wanting to go for a ride in the Ram. Might just take a ride
I’ll take a bunch of rednecks in pickup trucks
My first visit was in 1986 as a Marine Captain attending Amphibious Warfare School (now renamed Expeditionary Warfare School). Three day visit. Toured all the major sites of the battle in day by day sequence, had some presentations by noted Civil War scholars, visited the Cyclorama and museum and did a couple map board tactical exercises in hotel conference rooms using modern forces, tactics, etc.
The Cold War still being on at the time, enemy forces were all doctrinal Soviet units. Of course, with modern weapons, equipment, and tactics, there is no way two contending armies numbering 170,000 in total would have confined the engagement to just the Gettysburg area.
During the battlefield tour, our buses stopped on the road that follows the trace of the Army of Northern Virginia line of departure on Day 3. We dismounted and saw how distant that clump of trees was. Walked at ground level, we gained a better appreciation of just what it took to cross those fields while maintaining formation in the face of the kind of massed cannon and rifle fire they were receiving.
1986 was the year that my son went off to Paris island four days after graduating from high school.
Lordy,it seems like yesterday.
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For me, I couldn’t enlist for a month after graduation. Had to turn 18 first. When the day came, I went down to the post office, filled out the Selective Service registration form at the counter and turned it in. Then went upstairs and enlisted in the Marine Corps.
Fifty years ago come 16 July.
One of best decisions I ever made.
My son turned 18 that February,signed up before he graduated,finished school,and left 4 days later.
We attended graduation-——and man,was it HOT.
Clarification of my previous post-——we attended graduation at Parris Island——the end of July,1986——brutal heat,but he looked fantastic.
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