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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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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This is a no brainer for me... Point du Hoc, Normandy. My wife and I were on a mini vacation,drove across France and wound up at the beaches of the D-Day invasion 1 year after President Reagan dedicated the monument to the Rangers that scaled the cliffs at Pont du Hoc. I stood in awe on the beach looking up at the heights trying to fathom the sheer terror of our invasion of June 6, 1944. It truly inspired me to new levels of respect for our “Greatest Generation”.
Additionally we visited the military cemetery overlooking the English Channel. It was eerily quiet. And was one of my most memorable experiences of my entire Army career. Words cannot express the surge of pride I have for our Warriors of the past, present, and future!
Additionally we visited the military cemetery overlooking the English Channel. It was eerily quiet. And was one of my most memorable experiences of my entire Army career. Words cannot express the surge of pride I have for our Warriors of the past, present, and future!
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