Tom wrote:
> Link to Gettysburg photos showing the battlefield before superintendent John
> Latschar's ego ran amok and ruined it.
> http://users.snip.net/~hart/
>
> We loved Gettysburg: married there, took dozens of week-long trips, spent
> many thousands of dollars there,but those days are over thanks to park
> superintendent John Latschar. He's ruining the battlefield. He calls it
> restoration. Desecration is more descriptive. If we spent another dime we'd
> be supporting the destruction. We refuse.
>
> Trees are being ripped out wholesale. The deer have been slaughtered.
> Visiting on a November evening is an experience everyone should be able to
> enjoy, but he shortened the decades-old operating hours so you'll be
> ticketed and labeled criminals. He threw up so many one-way signs that
> traffic in town has become a tourist's nightmare. His nonsense goes on and
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Of course the purpose of ripping out the trees is to get the battlefield
looking ,ore like it did during the war. Why not?
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