Then we visited a local historical site, the Mannasas Battlefield. It was a quiet, grey day - very appropriate.
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by. - Sun Tzu
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by. - Sun Tzu
Beautiful photos. Still seems so awful, inappropriate to have another monument to the Confederacy. Wonder what will happen next to the Stonewall Jackson monument. I think monuments like that belong in museums.
ReplyDeleteGood question. The statue marks the spot where Jackson stood when another commander told his troops Jackson was standing there "like a stone wall." I don't quite know what to think about monuments in places where the person actually fought. But then, there is the matter of what the person fought for...
DeletemanASSas (yeah, I went there)
ReplyDeleteif I didn't know any better, I would say that was gettysburg; the battlefields look quite similar. except for the confederate statue.
There are also Confed monuments at Gettysburg; the Virginia monument, for example, is a massive statue of Lee on horseback.
DeleteInteresting place.
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