{"id":103358,"date":"2020-08-08T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103358"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T19:45:47","slug":"licensed-guides-at-gettysburg-raise-alarm-of-major-threat-to-civil-war-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103358","title":{"rendered":"Licensed Guides at Gettysburg raise alarm of &#8220;major threat&#8221; to Civil War monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c7\/Thure_de_Thulstrup_-_L._Prang_and_Co._-_Battle_of_Gettysburg_-_Restoration_by_Adam_Cuerden.jpg\/800px-Thure_de_Thulstrup_-_L._Prang_and_Co._-_Battle_of_Gettysburg_-_Restoration_by_Adam_Cuerden.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"359\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battle of Gettysburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CBS21 reports that the Licensed Battlefield Guides at Gettysburg have sounded the alarm regarding the House of Representatives assault on history. Specifically the House-passed bill would remove all Confederate monuments, statues, and commemorative plaques that help guide visitors through the historic battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>From the article;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe urge the U.S. Senate to strip out this provision that would destroy the unequaled collection of monuments, Union and Confederate, that set Gettysburg apart as a great battlefield park and a top visitor destination,\u201d said Les Fowler, president of the Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fowler, the legislation in question, HR-7608, would direct the National Park Service to remove all Confederate monuments, memorials, placards and statues at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Antietam, Chickamauga, Manassas, Petersburg, Fredericksburg and 18 other battlefields and historic sites within six months.<\/p>\n<p>Fowler says that these Civil War battlefields and their monuments and interpretive plaques have been preserved to help Americans and foreign guests visualize and understand the terrible ordeal that forged this nation. The monuments at Gettysburg from both sides allow us to interpret this national struggle for freedom as it continues today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe monuments representing all of the soldiers who fought here are a critical component of interpreting these sacred grounds,\u201d Fowler said. Veteran battlefield guide Deb Novotny said, \u201cThe monuments serve as tools for us to tell the story not only of this battle but of the struggle of our nation to heal itself after the war.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As George Santayana said, &#8220;<b>Those who cannot\u00a0remember\u00a0the\u00a0past are condemned to repeat it.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I think those that willfully and purposefully destroy the past are <em>intending<\/em> to repeat it.<\/p>\n<p>Source;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/licensed-guides-at-gettysburg-raise-alarm-of-major-threat-to-civil-war-monuments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS21<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS21 reports that the Licensed Battlefield Guides at Gettysburg have sounded the alarm regarding the House &hellip; <a title=\"Licensed Guides at Gettysburg raise alarm of &#8220;major threat&#8221; to Civil War monuments\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103358\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Licensed Guides at Gettysburg raise alarm of &#8220;major threat&#8221; to Civil War monuments<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,472,10,47,5,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-democrats","category-historical","category-liberals-suck","category-politics","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103362,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103358\/revisions\/103362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}