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Posted: 1/22/2021 12:19:41 AM EDT

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Jamestown, where the culture that gave birth to the union was born.

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the swamp?

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:21:47 AM EDT

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Gettysburg and Pearl Harbor get my vote.

Arlington is in its own category, IMO; not being an actual battlefield, it's a little apples-to-oranges.

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:26:56 AM EDT

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Lexington Green should be considered.

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How things have changed.

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:29:21 AM EDT

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Arlington, Tomb of the Unknown

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:29:41 AM EDT

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Arlington is obvious.

But I'd add: Lexington Green and the Cemetery at Omaha Beach in Normandy (it is part of America, according to France).

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:33:30 AM EDT

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Seems that our better in Washington DC and many state capitols believe that the cold linoleum floors of the abortion clinic are the most sacred.

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:33:33 AM EDT

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Arlington is what came to mind before even opening the thread.

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:33:50 AM EDT

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The Tomb of the Unknown soldier.

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Gets my vote

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:35:18 AM EDT

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Hard to choose. If I had one, it would be Lexington. Without that, nothing after that would have ever occurred. Most likely not even this country.

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:41:23 AM EDT

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I voted Arlington , but it used to be general lee's plantation so it will probably be plowed under by the left.

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:44:34 AM EDT

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Standing at the Angle at Gettysburg was the most moving experience I've had at a historic site. That said I've been to the Arizona memorial but I was too young to really understand what it all meant. It would likely affect me differently now.

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:53:51 AM EDT

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Maybe Arlington? Not sure why you didn't have the national cemetery on your list.

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yeah, I'm going to go with this.

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:55:19 AM EDT

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Gotta include Lexington Green and the Old North Bridge.

Arlington
Gettysburg
Pearl Harbor
World Trade Center site

Posted: 1/22/2021 12:55:24 AM EDT

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Any cemetery where our service men are buried.

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Posted: 1/22/2021 12:55:50 AM EDT

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The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier.

It covers all out fallen brothers and sisters.

If you’ve ever seen the changing of the guard ...

Apologies for the PBS link

Watch Changing of the Guard at Arlington National Cemetery in 4K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4utXb3auOew

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:02:16 AM EDT

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I would say Robert Lee's yard is probably as close as anything, and any military cemetary, even.
I would personally vote the churches, which can move around geographically, but this country would never have been if not for the churches.

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:03:58 AM EDT

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Bloody Lane at Antietam.

Visited the park back on Memorial Day. Not sure what it was but you could feel the heaviness when walking down the Sunken Lane

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:06:10 AM 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!

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Arlington is probably the best answer, but what you posted is what I thought of first.

....And soon, the world's last and sole remaining Dreadnought will depart and no longer stand sentinel over that hallowed ground.

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:09:18 AM 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.

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Posted: 1/22/2021 1:09:48 AM EDT

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The water above the Arizona.

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Came to add this.

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:12:06 AM EDT

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Tomb of Unknown Soldier - other than Aushwitz, perhaps the most emotionally somber place I have ever been. I hope all at Arlington gave it all for something still worth doing so for. I hope.

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:16:02 AM EDT

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Arlington

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:16:45 AM EDT

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For me, where the Declaration was signed.

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:24:55 AM EDT

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Arlington is what came to mind before even opening the thread.

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If you've ever been there, you know that this is the right answer.

Posted: 1/22/2021 1:31:27 AM EDT

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If you've ever been there, you know that this is the right answer.

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ETA: I took my daughter there about 3 years ago. She was 9 years old then. We walked around the whole of the place and ended our walk at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Watched the changing of the guard. After it was over, the crowd dispersed and it was just the two of us and the guard, walking his post. She was standing there with no sign of getting ready to go so I asked her if she was ready and she just quietly said, "No. I think I want to just stand here for a little while". And so we did.

Posted: 1/22/2021 2:37:57 AM EDT

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How Lexington isn't even on anyones radar is baffling to me. Everything that people are listing occurred AFTER that day and place and as I stated probably don't occur if those Patriots, didn't do something that changed the entire course of mankind. Every other event that is listed is directly tied to those 40 or so men who stood in defiance of the King and shed blood as the first Americans that gave birth to a country.

It is quite sad to me that nobody seems to remember that without Captain Parker, Dawes and Revere, probably everything people here list doesn't happen or exist. Yeah this is the second time I have posted it, but I've always found it stunning that most don't even know where this country started. It should be a mandatory trip for people because that morning, April 19 1775 forever changed the trajectory of the entire world as we know it.

Posted: 1/22/2021 2:47:08 AM EDT

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Arlington
The National Cemetery of the Pacific.
Arizona Memorial

Posted: 1/22/2021 4:49:35 AM EDT

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Call me a youngster but there's something pretty solemn and sacred about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.

Posted: 1/22/2021 5:08:47 AM EDT

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Lexington.

Posted: 1/22/2021 5:29:12 AM EDT

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The Tomb of the Unknown soldier.

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Posted: 1/22/2021 6:23:16 AM EDT

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Tomb of the Unknown.

ETA Yorktown should be sacred but instead it’s a sad tourist trap and Colonial Parkway was my favorite place for late night insides reorganizing of hoes back in the day.

Posted: 1/22/2021 6:24:31 AM EDT

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The capitol.

lol jk

Arlington

Posted: 1/22/2021 6:37:45 AM EDT

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Independence Hall.

Posted: 1/22/2021 6:40:00 AM EDT

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Arlington, without question.

This is a generational thing I think, but I was young enough to be shaken to my core by 9/11 but old enough to remember it clearly. I’ve been to the WTC site 4-5 times over the years since, beginning with -~4 months afterwards. Every time I walk away with a new fire in my heart, thankful for the life that I have.

Posted: 1/22/2021 6:57:33 AM EDT

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The Trinity site. There's no going back from that moment.

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This

Many other places are sacred. That site marks the turning point for humanity. It is where we acquired the ability to destroy ourselves. The other sites mentioned are places were we have our dead. They made a difference but they didn't make the difference that the gadget made.

Watch the interview with Oppenheimer. He knew the world and humanity was changed forever and he felt a great deal of guilt for his contribution. The invention and its use were the right thing but still very sombering.

Posted: 1/22/2021 6:59:58 AM EDT

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...Pearl Harbor would be another one that hasn't been mentioned yet.

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This, and I would put the Trinity test site and the Tomb of the Unknowns in the top 10.

Posted: 1/22/2021 7:11:45 AM EDT

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Augusta National

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That's just stupid.

Posted: 1/22/2021 7:12:54 AM EDT

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Between turns 3 and 4 Daytona International Speedway.

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and another

That's just stupid.

Posted: 1/22/2021 7:31:56 AM EDT

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The Trinity site is a great contender.

Posted: 1/22/2021 9:04:08 AM EDT

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The Tomb of the Unknown soldier.

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Posted: 1/22/2021 9:08:57 AM EDT

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Obviously many are, of course Arlington. But more close to me that I have gone to is the Shiloh civil war battlefield. Everytime I go there it feels like a religious experience to me.

Posted: 1/22/2021 9:21:33 AM EDT

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The Tomb of the Unknown soldier.

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this

Posted: 1/22/2021 9:28:48 AM EDT

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Ruby Ridge

Posted: 1/22/2021 9:37:39 AM EDT

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I voted Arlington, and apparently they agree

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Posted: 1/22/2021 9:38:01 AM EDT

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How Lexington isn't even on anyones radar is baffling to me. Everything that people are listing occurred AFTER that day and place and as I stated probably don't occur if those Patriots, didn't do something that changed the entire course of mankind. Every other event that is listed is directly tied to those 40 or so men who stood in defiance of the King and shed blood as the first Americans that gave birth to a country.

It is quite sad to me that nobody seems to remember that without Captain Parker, Dawes and Revere, probably everything people here list doesn't happen or exist. Yeah this is the second time I have posted it, but I've always found it stunning that most don't even know where this country started. It should be a mandatory trip for people because that morning, April 19 1775 forever changed the trajectory of the entire world as we know it.

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I can argue that both ways. Lexington was part of a continuum of events, not wildly different than the powder alarms before it. The UK would have brushed that off by itself. Concord Bridge is where it got real, and suddenly you had a full scale shooting war on the way back to Boston.

Posted: 1/22/2021 9:44:02 AM EDT

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According to the politicians and their MSM sycophants, the capitol building is sacred grounds

I voted Arlington as “most,” but there are plenty of hallowed and sacred sites to any true patriotic American, including the others you mentioned.

Posted: 1/22/2021 9:44:39 AM EDT

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Arlington, where the treasury for Freedom is preserved.

Posted: 1/22/2021 9:50:09 AM EDT

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It's a tie. Among every square inch of ground where an American happens to be at the time.

We're an exceptional people, not an exceptional hunk of dirt.

'Murica