Today we took the audio driving tour of the Gettysburg Battlefields. This was a very humbling experience. Fifty one thousand soldiers on both sides were killed, injured or missing after three days of battle. Hard to imagine what it must of been like to be there in battle. There are monuments everywhere around the battlefield. The monument picture is the Enternal Life Peace Memorial which was dedicated 75 years after the battle by FDR. Over 1,800 civil war vets, average age 95, attended the dedication and the government paid for their travel and expenses. Over 200,000 were present for the event.
Today we took the audio driving tour of the Gettysburg Battlefields. This was a very humbling experience. Fifty one thousand soldiers on both sides were killed, injured or missing after three days of battle. Hard to imagine what it must of been like to be there in battle. There are monuments everywhere around the battlefield. The monument picture is the Enternal Life Peace Memorial which was dedicated 75 years after the battle by FDR. Over 1,800 civil war vets, average age 95, attended the dedication and the government paid for their travel and expenses. Over 200,000 were present for the event. 
Thank you very much for the history. It is so humbling to see and read how much was done to create this wonderful country. I just hope we can still save it.
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