Describe battlefields you walked

[Tommygunn]

Pearl Harbor.
I vacationed in Hawaii in 1987 and made it a point to visit the Arizona Memorial.
A very somber experience ... a place of utter horror and death in the midst of beauty and paradise.
I tried to imagine in my mind, while I was there .... what it must have been like there, on December 7th, 1941.
A fail, really. You can watch the films, the documentaries... but you can't really imagine it.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

The ones I know best are Trenton (December 26, 1776), Princeton (January 3, 1777) and Monmouth (June 28, 1778), all within 45 minutes from where I live. Trenton has been built over, though the Old Barracks was standing at the time and the layout of the streets is the same. A few years ago I walked Princeton Battlefield around 8AM on January 3, the approximate time the battle started. In 1997 I partcipated as a Continental infantryman in the annual Battle of Monmouth reeanactment, on a hot day-the actual battle was fought in 90 degree heat. After 12 rounds of blanks my Charleville musket became very unfcomfortable to touch. Not big battles by Civil War standards but those who died there ended up just as dead, and Trenton and Princeton were
turning points in the Revolution.

 

[Zeke/PA]

I'm missing something here.
The "High Water Mark" occured during the famed "Picketts Charge" that took place on the afternoon of the THIRD day of the Gettysburg battle.
I have walked the Gettysburg and the Antiteam sites numerous times.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

I have visited the Alamo in San Antonio,Tx.a couple of times. I was surprized on my first visit in 1978 to find it was DOWNTOWN and not out on the prairie like in the movies.

 

[SpaceFrank]

I visited the American Memorial at Normandy a couple years ago and walked down to the beach. It was a beautiful day and there wasn't a soul in sight for miles aside from my friend and me. It was indeed strange how peaceful everything looked. Between the beach and the top of the hill, the ground was completely covered in green. You'd never believe how many men died there.

Thinking about it now, I actually don't think I could envision a better resting place.

 

[rbernie]

Interesting, but off topic for THR.