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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? |
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Any of the really lonely places in the western National Parks.
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Maybe Arlington? Not sure why you didn't have the national cemetery on your list.
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Jamestown, where the culture that gave birth to the union was born.
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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. |
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The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Seattle Washington, cuz George Floyd...
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According to some people in congress, it’s the Capital Building.
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One man's hallowed ground is another's bulldozer project. Such is the way with man.
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Voted Arlington but having visited the USS Arizona memorial that was more emotional for me.
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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. |
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Anywhere some fucked up politician sent our men to die. Every single battlefield they ever died on.
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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.
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All of the choices listed so far are spot on. But for a Texan the picture above is the grail! |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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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