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Normandy 1994...especially the cemetaries with thousands of white crosses

Culloden, dark, damp, cold and spooky:(
Its amazing its so old yet still has such weird energy.

Majuba on a foggy morning. I could almost see the ghosts of the British killed that day in 1881.

troopie

In 1969 I had the honor to visit the ruins of the fortress of Liege. The Belgian troops in this, and the other Belgian forts in 1914, delayed the German onslaught long enough to throw the invader's plans into a cocked hat. Ill equipped and outnumbered, the cream of the Belgian youth paid with their blood for the time the British and French needed to prepare to face the Kaiser's army and stop it from reaching Paris.



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Eric Maietta

The site of the Fetterman massacre near Fort Phil Kearny has an incredible aura about it.

The Custer battlefield has a very intense feeling, especially when the tourists aren't around and you can just wander. What was really amazing is the scattering of lone markers away from Custer marking where soldiers fell.

I got to tour Monte Cassino in Italy. When you're at the bottom looking up its hard to believe that men fought their way up that hill.

On a more personal note, when I was in my father's home town in Italy, he pointed out former German positions in the surrounding mountains.

Some of the buildings still have damage from an errant American air bombing and statues still missing heads from German soldiers who vandalized the area.

take care,

merigo

I would have to say Antietam -- particularly the Cornfield and Bloody Lane. To stand at the edge of the cornfield and visualize the waves of attacking troops being shot down was very moving. Then to walk the sunken lane and imagine it full of dead and wounded added immeasuably to the experience.

Shiloh gave me a similar feeling, but the battlefield there is much smaller and much more confined. I got a definite feel for the close- combat nature of the battle, and for the difficulties facing generals Johnston and Beauregard.

I can't wait to see Normandy, as I have gamed it for years, and because my father's brother's grave overlooks Omaha Beach.

Thanks--

The battlefields of Verdun, the Somme, the Marne, Ypres and Flanders. I stood there and could not imagine having to charge across those fields into machine guns, wire and fortified trenches without cover or concealment.

The very air is still alive with memories.

I also visited the Ossuary, the French Memorial to the unknown dead at Verdun. That is a ghostly place. It was misty that morning, as well, and this thing loomed out of the mist like a great granite bayonet...

normandy ( point du hoc especially ) and flanders in belgium

Originally posted by rockymtndoc
The battlefields of Verdun, the Somme, the Marne, Ypres and Flanders. I stood there and could not imagine having to charge across those fields into machine guns, wire and fortified trenches without cover or concealment.

The very air is still alive with memories.

yes. looking over the nice landscape and imagine how much men did fell there in senseless fighting for some hundred meters of no mans land. and there were the gas attacks and the day long arty bombardments, really cruel