Showing posts with label June 23rd Battlefields. Show all posts
Showing posts with label June 23rd Battlefields. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Gettysburg Battlefields Wed June 23rd


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.