Which historic military sites have been the most memorable for you?

Mine have all been military cemeteries, large or small, whether in the U.S. or on foreign soil. Military statues can certainly be visually impressive, but the simple, white marble gravemarkers hold my attention and respect, and leave a memory I will never forget.

As a young NCO a lifetime ago, My 1SG took us out to Luxembourg Memorial Cemetary in the town of Luxembourg that shares borders with Germany and France. It was a very sureal moment in my life. Especially to see the grave site of one of the greatest military generals we have ever had,
General George S. Patton.

Although I have a long list of sites I intend to visit, Little Big Horn is the only one I have been to. It amazes me to think what the Cavalry must have thought coming up over the hill, let alone how they managed to find the camp in the middle of nowhere like that - but yet not realize exactly what was there.

I was a Marine on Okinawa 61-63. The war had only been over16 yrs. I went to KaKazu where the first line Japanese defense had been I went into a cave their was cement blocks built like a small room about 6ft high with an open hole about a 14 inch square shined a light inside, There was a stack of human bones piled to the top. We also found old trench lines in the ASP#1 Ammo Dump with human bones. I saw a farmer had dug up a shoe in his field with the foot bones still in it. The shoe looked like an American combat boot. There were over a hundred thousand casualties on that island. I imagine things will be dug up for a good many years, even unexploded ordnance. A lot of caves had the entrances blown shut with the Japanese Soldiers inside. Semper Fi.

Hands down Gettysburg. Easy to get around, well marked, and especially if you watch the movie right before or after visiting the site (was filmed on the actual sites)

Colleville and the cemetary at Hamm, Lux. where Patton is buried. There are so many. Each one is an emotional experience.

The Vietnam Memorial Wall.

For me i would have to say the USS Arizona in Hawaii, and The Kehlsteinhaus (known as the "Eagle's Nest" among the Allies) in Berchtesgaden, Germany.