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

As I read through all of your comments, I saw many of the places that I have been to, and a few that I haven't. Gettysburg is always on my list, but Antietam is pretty sobering. I have been to Crown Point, Fort Niagara and Ticonderoga from the French and Indian war, and Arnhem, Nijmegen and Bastogne from WWII, along with Patton's grave and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. From the American Revolution, there was Fort Stanwix, Oriskany Lexington - Concord "Battle Road" and Yorktown. But the most memorable was Saratoga. I did the battlefield tour there on a staff ride as part of a Division G-3 shop. The officers and senior NCOs were each given a specific point of the battle by the G-3 and told to explain which battlefield operating system was important at that particular point in the battle. It made me look at my battlefield history in a way that I hadn't before, and let me see history in a new light.

My great grandfather fought at Gettysburg and was later wounded in the battle of the Wilderness. I have visited both those sites. Overseas - Pearl Harbor, one uncle perished there.

Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge was for me the most memorial place I have visited. The monuments and dedications erected by the locals to honor those who fought and died there were amazing and moving.

Normandy, the whole thing. Got to see every landmark, cemetery, and key point in 1980 (everything seen in the movie "The Longest Day). Stayed a night in Saint Mere Eglise, you can see bullet holes in the walls. Pointe du Hoc had huge bomb craters everywhere, signs in every language warned visitors to stay on the path because of unexploded ordinance. The German bunkers were mostly intact, the insides reek of urine (the French opinion of them). The Mulberry harbor at Gold Beach was still partially visible. Benouville "Pegasus" Bridge, where British Airborne troops captured and held the position until relieved, still appeared as it did in 1944. Very humbling to see what British, Canadian, and American forces were up against.

The Soviet route into Berlin at the end of WWII, Operation Market Garden, and Normandy. Staff rides while stationed in Germany.

always has been, and always will be. Pearl Harbor and the U.S.S. Arizona. a lot of brothers died there. and i did my best to live up to their expectations.

The Arizona Memorial hits home. My ex was stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii and I got to visit the Memorial with my grandmother who had come over to visit. (her first time on a plane and she flies from Syracuse, NY to Hawaii!). Very moving. The other would be Gettysburg.

Suresnes American Cemetery outside Paris, France, Andersonville, and Gettysburg would be the ones most memorable. The other one would be the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington.

Shiloh

Vicksburg and Arlington National Cemetery