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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Years ago, while on TDY at the Waterways Experimentation Station in Vicksburg, MS, I spent some down time visiting the Vicksburg National Military Park. I was walking around looking at the signs indicating e.g., that such-and-such Union battalion reached a point halfway up the side of a particular fortified embankment. I wondered how a whole battalion got stopped just a few feet from making it over the top, so I started scurrying up the embankment. As I popped my head up at the top I found myself staring into the mouth of a *very* large cannon!!
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Antietam. A pocket sized battlefield compared to Gettysburg or Chickamauga but the place that hosted the most American casualties in a single day. In the middle of nowhere Maryland it is a very solemn site.
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The Arizona Memorial and Hickam AFB's building still showing bullet strikes from 7 Dec 1941. Spent nine years in USAF - 8 years in Air Defense preventing another Pearl Harbor.
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Little BigHorn... I am a huge fan of knowing ones own history, and this battlefield has an immense inner meaning to me for my Comanche roots, knowing that we could fight against tyrannical madman such as Custer and succeed is very important, it is also important to remember ALL of the men who died there, and the atrocities committed by the participants of the battle
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Gettysburg, Fredricksburg , The cemetery in Holland containing the graves of British and Polish Airborne troops who fought to capture the bridge at Arnhem. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Although I have been to a lot of sites, I was affected most by Dachau concentration camp.
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