A TRIP TO GETTYSBURG, AND WHAT IT MEANT TO ME. AN UPDATE AND HISTORICAL REMINDER.

 

UPDATE- I had hoped that my thoughts on A visit to the GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD might cause Progressives, Historians, and Pennsylvanians to look more closely at Donald Trumps Rambling and Incoherent speech about this most important of Civil War Battles. I was wrong.

I am not going to reprint the entire speech, it is easily available online. I wanted to quote the following:

"AND THE STATEMENT OF ROBERT E. LEE, WHO'S NO LONGER IN FAVOR- DID YOU EVER NOTICE IT? NEVER FIGHT UPHILL ME BOYS, NEVER FIGHT UPHILL..."

So Trump decides to misquote the CONFEDERATE GENERAL who lost the Battle, while seeming to wonder why he is no longer very popular. 

Guess what? There were two COMMANDING GENERALS AT GETTYSBURG. LEE, AND THE LEADER OF THE VICTORIOUS UNION FORCES: GEORGE GORDON MEADE. What seems to be ignored is the following- He was born into a PHILADELPHIA FAMILY, AND BEGAN HIS CIVIL WAR SERVICE AS A GENERAL IN THE PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES. A SON OF THE QUAKER STATE WINS THE BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT BATTLE OF THE WAR, IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND TRUMP TALKS ABOUT THE DEFEATED GENERAL FIGHTING TO SAVE SLAVERY.

Perhaps you can explain to me why this fact has been ignored by TRUMPS OPPONENTS, ESPECIALLY NATIVE DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVES IN PENN.

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Thoughts after my trip to GETTYSBURG.

"When you go home, tell them of us and say,

for their tomorrow, we gave our today."

- John Maxwell Edmonds.

As I walked the Fields and Grounds where so many died to preserve

and defend the Greatest Political Experiment in Human History, and

end an Indefensible Evil, the above words kept coming back to me. Yes, they 

were written after the American Civil War, and have applications to many

conflicts, but they mean so much given the upcoming U.S. Election.

My God, to think of the Sacrifice so many have made over the course of U.S.

History being Ignored and Rejected by the idea of placing a Convicted Criminal

and Traitor who tried to overthrow the U.S. CONSTITUTION AND A LEGALLY

ELECTED GOVERNMENT IS BEYOND DISTURBING. IT IS VILE AND DISGUSTING.

Remembering the Honored Fallen is more than just something that should be recognized

a few days on the Calendar. It is preserving the Rights, Protections, and Freedoms that

was worth giving all that they had to give.

DON'T LET THEM DOWN.