Posted on Apr 16, 2017
Which historic military sites have been the most memorable for you?
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Since many of us have the opportunity to travel the world and visit historic battlefields, which sites would you say have been the most memorable for you? For me, it has to be Belleau Wood with a good Marine buddy of mine, and the site where the 3rd Infantry Division adopted the nickname, ''Rock of the Marne'' in Mezy, France.
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Normandy would probably be my most memorable. Being in a bunker at Pont du Hoc and imagining how the Germans felt made a vivid impression.
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Though Gettysburg ranks high on my list (I hope to return one day) it has to be Normandy - St Mere Eglise where the 505th dropped in and the steeple still had a dummy representing PVT Steele got caught on the steeple and hung there during the firefight for the town to standing at the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mere looking down at Omaha and then to the left at Pont-du-Hoc and swallowing hard, thinking of those "kids" and what they did there.
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For me it is a little set of ruins in Beaufort, S.C. called the Old Sheldon Church ruins. It was burned to the ground by the British during the Revolutionary War and then again by General Sherman in the Civil War. I don't even really know how to describe the area except for serene. It's unnaturally quiet and there is the smell of something old clinging to the old bricks.
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Pearl Harbor and Fredricksburg for me besides maybe Washington DC itself those are the most historic sites I have been to for military history as well as the USS Missouri and Wisconsin.
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SFC Jim Dorsey
I was in the FRG when the wall came down. Talk about frozen in time, crossed into “East Germany” after the border was opened up, and this village had Zero updates / upgrades since the 1940’s !
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Living within a short driving distance of all the major Civil War battlefields in Virginia affords me great opportunity to visit them with regularity by motorcycle. For those who have not followed the route of "Lee's Retreat" from Petersburg to Appomattox Courthouse, you owe it to yourself to put in on your bucket list. I could spend days in and around Gettysburg, a day's drive away. I met a retired Army SGM who was acting as the butler at the Confederate White House in Richmond. His ancestor served in that capacity during the Civil War. We talked for an hour about Gettysburg. We had a slightly differing opinion of the advantages and follies of those 3 days. I'd like to do that again sometime soon.
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I agree. I'm from VA and we have a ton of Civil War as well as Revolutionary War history!
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Cool, I always figured it was German's dressed in our old fatigues standing there as actors. I'm taking the family there in a couple of months, I'll be sure to check it out.
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The actual Checkpoint is gone now. It is just a show piece now. I believe the Checkpoint that I worked out of is in the Smithsonian. They torn done most of the wall there is only one small section still standing.
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