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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I was onboard the USS Missouri when it was sent to Pearl Harbor for permanent display. It is moored next to the USS Arizona. This marks both the start of World War II and the end of the war.
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Gettysburg and Antietam for starters. But while I was Stationed in Germany I got to go to Remagen and see that was left of the Ludendorf Bridge. I was able to go and walk the ground around Bastone as well.
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The Wall in D.C. Names of friends and brothers lost make it very emotional.
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I like this question. This is a good way to connect between those on the clock and those who been there. done that. but it's been a while.
Much of warfare is eternal. Same mud, same blood. I was on a staff ride with an ROTC class at Gettysburg, It was conducted by the retired Colonel who literally wrote the Field Manual on the current LandSeaAir doctrine that informed Tommy Franks' brilliant campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a legacy of the Starship Troopers era of the Army Secretariate of the Chief of Staff. His name was Paul something, someone my dad knew and he invited me to accompany his presentation.
It was wonderful. I was at Malvern Hill on my way back to DC after Thanksgiving at Ft. Monroe. I was sitting in the bleachers oriented to the Union gunner's perspective on the grey uniforms coming up the hill into the flame and grape shot. In Vietnam, we called them "Flechette Rounds" for 105 tubes when the little people were in the wire and needed attention. I was sitting there, sort of running these memories like savoring a fine wine and this guy who looked a company grade infantry officer of either the GI or Jarhead tribes on the Peninsual who had what looked like a bleacher pitch he was rehearsing for a presentation that week. So I asked if he wanted to throw his pitch at me.
From where I sat, I could see past his billboards to where Lee sat on Traveler, watching the progress of the three assualts he threw against those guns. And they went up, jumping over the bits and pieces of the wave that went before. Baldy Smith had strung trip wire down in the hollow you have to cross to start up into the muzzels spitting great gouts of flame licking out of a cloud of smoke. And what had been a running start had turned into a mosh pit the gunners just kept firing at. Over the heads of the Union infantry dug in the forward slope.
And Lee sat there on Traveler and watched. It was a sight which haunted the Army of the Potomac like Banquo's ghost until the Petersburg breakout and he became a Will'O the Wisp until they ran him to ground at Appomattox. But it still a long march a head of them at Marlvern Hill but they would keep the faith and make it. You can channel Lee's Will To Wind at Malvern Hill.
Go see for yourself. As Henry IV challenges "Who hath trod the ground?"
Much of warfare is eternal. Same mud, same blood. I was on a staff ride with an ROTC class at Gettysburg, It was conducted by the retired Colonel who literally wrote the Field Manual on the current LandSeaAir doctrine that informed Tommy Franks' brilliant campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a legacy of the Starship Troopers era of the Army Secretariate of the Chief of Staff. His name was Paul something, someone my dad knew and he invited me to accompany his presentation.
It was wonderful. I was at Malvern Hill on my way back to DC after Thanksgiving at Ft. Monroe. I was sitting in the bleachers oriented to the Union gunner's perspective on the grey uniforms coming up the hill into the flame and grape shot. In Vietnam, we called them "Flechette Rounds" for 105 tubes when the little people were in the wire and needed attention. I was sitting there, sort of running these memories like savoring a fine wine and this guy who looked a company grade infantry officer of either the GI or Jarhead tribes on the Peninsual who had what looked like a bleacher pitch he was rehearsing for a presentation that week. So I asked if he wanted to throw his pitch at me.
From where I sat, I could see past his billboards to where Lee sat on Traveler, watching the progress of the three assualts he threw against those guns. And they went up, jumping over the bits and pieces of the wave that went before. Baldy Smith had strung trip wire down in the hollow you have to cross to start up into the muzzels spitting great gouts of flame licking out of a cloud of smoke. And what had been a running start had turned into a mosh pit the gunners just kept firing at. Over the heads of the Union infantry dug in the forward slope.
And Lee sat there on Traveler and watched. It was a sight which haunted the Army of the Potomac like Banquo's ghost until the Petersburg breakout and he became a Will'O the Wisp until they ran him to ground at Appomattox. But it still a long march a head of them at Marlvern Hill but they would keep the faith and make it. You can channel Lee's Will To Wind at Malvern Hill.
Go see for yourself. As Henry IV challenges "Who hath trod the ground?"
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Sharpsburg, MD, especially the portion of the field near the Dunker church, where Hood's Brigade, with four depleted, exhausted, and hungry regiments stopped the Union I Corps attack, and threw them back behind their line of departure. Burnside's Bridge and the sunken road, on the same field, for similar reasons.
Waterloo, where Bonaparte's career was finally ended.
The Ardennes Forest. My dad was on the northern flank of the Bulge in '44.
The fields of Franklin, TN, where the Army of Tennessee lost 12 generals (6 killed) and half of their regimental commanders in an afternoon and evening of suicidal attacks ordered by a commanding general who had no business still leading troops.
Not a battlefield, but Dachau, where you could still feel the presence of the dead at least as late as 1978. We could only bear to go once. My dad had been there when it was fresh.
Perryville, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Spring Hill, Gettysburg, Glorietta Pass, Corinth, MS, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Wilson's Creek, Nashville, Picacho Pass, and the entire route and battlefields of the Red River campaign of 1864. Most of these were seen as a reenactor.
Fort Caspar, WY, the site of the Wagon Box Fight, and Little Bighorn.
Lexington, Concord, Yorktown, and Valley Forge.
The Alamo and San Jacinto.
Berlin, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Vienna, and any number of small villages and back roads in Germany, Belgium, and Austria, which were probably fought through in 44-45.
Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
Waterloo, where Bonaparte's career was finally ended.
The Ardennes Forest. My dad was on the northern flank of the Bulge in '44.
The fields of Franklin, TN, where the Army of Tennessee lost 12 generals (6 killed) and half of their regimental commanders in an afternoon and evening of suicidal attacks ordered by a commanding general who had no business still leading troops.
Not a battlefield, but Dachau, where you could still feel the presence of the dead at least as late as 1978. We could only bear to go once. My dad had been there when it was fresh.
Perryville, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Spring Hill, Gettysburg, Glorietta Pass, Corinth, MS, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Wilson's Creek, Nashville, Picacho Pass, and the entire route and battlefields of the Red River campaign of 1864. Most of these were seen as a reenactor.
Fort Caspar, WY, the site of the Wagon Box Fight, and Little Bighorn.
Lexington, Concord, Yorktown, and Valley Forge.
The Alamo and San Jacinto.
Berlin, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Vienna, and any number of small villages and back roads in Germany, Belgium, and Austria, which were probably fought through in 44-45.
Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
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SSG Michael Eastes
I left out the areas of the ROK south of the current DMZ, which were fairly active from '51-'53.
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The American Military cemetaries at Normandy, and in Luxembourg - where LTG George S. Patton is buried...
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I still have to visit the one in Luxembourg. And I'm only a three hour drive away. The one's in France, are very powerful. Especially Belleau Wood! The photo on at the very top is of my marine buddy and I at the "Devil Dog Fountain'' in the town of Belleau.
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My first and immediate response was USS Arizona. Then, I read another response and was reminded how I felt when I visited Gettysburg.
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The Bloody Cornfield at Antietam for the shear carnage of humanity, close to 6000 casualties in close quarter combat in less than four hours.
Appomattox for the overwhelming impact the results had on the future of our nation.
Appomattox for the overwhelming impact the results had on the future of our nation.
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For me would have to be Antietam,is hard to explain but it was like it was familiar to me at one site talking to a park ranger I made the comment that there should be a line of tree's down a road and was told there was at one time but had died and had to be removed
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