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Posted: 1/21/2021 11:05:43 PM EDT
My vote is the Gettysburg battlefield.

Arguments could be made for a half dozen other civil war battlefields: Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Manassas come to mind.

Yorktown is also on the short list.

Of course, Arlington.

There are some graveyards in Boston and Charleston that are damn near sacred ground.

And then there is the national archives.

What say you?
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:06:47 PM EDT
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Granary Cemetery in Boston should be on that list.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:07:40 PM EDT
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The Tomb of the Unknown soldier.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:08:01 PM EDT
[#3]
Any of the really lonely places in the western National Parks.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:08:14 PM EDT
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Maybe Arlington? Not sure why you didn't have the national cemetery on your list.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:08:20 PM EDT
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Any cemetery where our service men are buried.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:08:30 PM EDT
[#6]
My home.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:08:43 PM EDT
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I’ll add Arlington to the OP.

If this thread gains traction, I’ll make a poll.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:09:34 PM EDT
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Jamestown, where the culture that gave birth to the union was born.

Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:10:30 PM EDT
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Ft. McHenry is up there.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:10:36 PM EDT
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This.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:11:02 PM EDT
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Don't forget Ground Zero


I used to live in NYC and when I came back to the sight in November 2001, that really messed with me.

Pearl Harbor would be another one that hasn't been mentioned yet.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:12:03 PM EDT
[#13]
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Seattle Washington, cuz George Floyd...
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:12:15 PM EDT
[#14]
According to some people in congress, it’s the Capital Building.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:13:07 PM EDT
[#15]
White Horse???

Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:13:47 PM EDT
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One man's hallowed ground is another's bulldozer project.  Such is the way with man.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:14:25 PM EDT
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The water above the Arizona.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:14:39 PM EDT
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It's the only place I can think of that is guarded for non-security reasons.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:16:50 PM EDT
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Voted Arlington but having visited the USS Arizona memorial that was more emotional for me.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:16:54 PM EDT
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I’ve fucked up the poll 4 times, and didn’t even think of Pearl Harbor
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:17:21 PM EDT
[#22]
Graceland
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:17:44 PM EDT
[#23]
Pearl Harbor.

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Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:18:18 PM EDT
[#24]
Didn't you hear?  Trump is no longer president.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:18:49 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:19:40 PM EDT
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The Trinity site. There's no going back from that moment.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:19:59 PM EDT
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Arlington for sure.
Ground zero
The Vietnam memorial
The Arizona

For me though Shanksville PA.  Flight 93.

Average Americans decided they wouldn't go quietly into the night.  They knew what was coming, and they fought back, saving lives on the ground while making the ultimate sacrifice.

It doesn't hardly get any attention but that is the most hallowed ground of my lifetime.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:21:10 PM EDT
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and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:22:48 PM EDT
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Lexington Green should be considered.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:25:54 PM EDT
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The Alamo
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:28:32 PM EDT
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Came here to post this.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:29:40 PM EDT
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Been there twice.

Texas owes a debt of gratitude to Tennessee.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:31:15 PM EDT
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Anywhere some fucked up politician sent our men to die. Every single battlefield they ever died on.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:33:34 PM EDT
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Between turns 3 and 4 Daytona International Speedway.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:34:43 PM EDT
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Amen
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:34:44 PM EDT
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Voted Gettysburg. Would maybe change my vote to this:

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Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:35:41 PM EDT
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Arlington, Pearl harbor, Ground Zero WTC, Oklahoma City
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:40:04 PM EDT
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Ground Zero
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:40:32 PM EDT
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I sit comfortably in a home, with a roof over my head and a fridge full of food to feed my family. I have these things because others have fought for my ability to have it, and many of them died as a result. Wherever they are is hallowed ground IMO.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:41:07 PM EDT
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All of the choices listed so far are spot on. But for a Texan the picture above is the grail!
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:41:53 PM EDT
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Lexington Green
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:44:27 PM EDT
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This.

Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:44:44 PM EDT
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SPNI

Something about the grave of the unknown soldier.
Link Posted: 1/21/2021 11:54:36 PM EDT
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Arlington

I've been to Gettysburg and several other of our battlefields. They are something when you know why they are preserved, but if not, they aren't much more than pretty places with some cannons scattered about.

Nothing I've ever experienced is even remotely like walking through the gardens of stone to reach the tomb of the unknowns. The shear emotional weight.  I visited for my second time 2 years ago. The first was in '76 when I was just a wee lad. Even then I knew I was someplace special even if I didn't quite know why. As an adult and a veteran and the son of a veteran I have never felt anything like it.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:00:24 AM EDT
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Augusta National
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This.

Not just Arlington, but especially the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. When I was a senior in high school, our marching band took a trip to DC. I was selected as one of four that got to lay a wreath at the Tomb. I'm not exaggerating when I say that that moment changed me forever.



I was assigned to the the 25th ID so I've been to Pear Harbor. Doesn't compare with the Tomb of the Unkown.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:11:01 AM EDT
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Patton buried alongside all his boys at the cemetary in Luxembourg is pretty awesome to see, though that is not stateside.  Just trying to save a shit thread.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:13:18 AM EDT
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That is a rough ‘hood
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:15:28 AM EDT
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In this country....anywhere a patriot has fallen giving his last full measure. I would say as far as that goes, anywhere in the world where one of our fellow countrymen fell or is buried.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:18:04 AM EDT
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My grandmas little brother lays in the first row directly across from Patton. A 20 year old farm boy from Ohio who gave his all for this country....pretty hallowed ground for me
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