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Breakfast with Optimus to start our journey!
Arrived! In preperation for the next few days we watched the movie Gettysburg which was long, but helpful since it helped us picture the battles and what the different generals went though.
Made friends with a Union solider on the first day!
And then sat on Abe Lincoln's hat!
Riding Pocahontas the second day. The Seguey tour we took named each sequey after a war horse.
Little Round Top
Chamberlain’s counterattack (pg 4/5 of previous link)
Look-out view of Little Round Top…lots and lots and lots of stairs. Whew!
On the Peace Light Memorial
Pickett's Charge
The Angle: Where General Armistead’s men broke through the Union line.
Not Quite Captain Jack Harkness!
Devil's Den:Imitating the famous photo. (Photo is in the link, but so is the description of the battle)
Same location but on the wall this time.
General George Sear Greene’s monument.
The Wheat-field: this would be one of the more difficult links to read.
After all that a break at Tommy's Pizza is wonderful. It's right accross from the Soldier's National Cemetery. RJ would love this place, not so sure about Tommy though...
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
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So so much fun...and educational too.
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