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So I'm in Fredericksburg this weekend for the toy soldier show and today I visited all the major battlefields in the area.
I was a bit shocked at both the lack of knowledge about what happened at these spots and more importantly, the lack of respect.
I saw kids running around yelling and screaming, throwing rocks and sticks at cannons, people babbling and laughing and talking ragtime, and my personal favorite, kids climbing all over state and unit monuments while clueless parents took "Cute pictures I'm going to post on Facebook."
Embarassing.
And annoying.
One guy had his four kids climbing all over a new monument at the mule shoe at Spottslyvannia while his wife took a picture, to which I replied as I walked by "Thousands of Americans died on this spot so you could come here and @#$% on their sacrifices"................he just looked at me and kept piling his kids onto the monument.
What a clueless wonder.
I was a bit shocked at both the lack of knowledge about what happened at these spots and more importantly, the lack of respect.
I saw kids running around yelling and screaming, throwing rocks and sticks at cannons, people babbling and laughing and talking ragtime, and my personal favorite, kids climbing all over state and unit monuments while clueless parents took "Cute pictures I'm going to post on Facebook."
Embarassing.
And annoying.
One guy had his four kids climbing all over a new monument at the mule shoe at Spottslyvannia while his wife took a picture, to which I replied as I walked by "Thousands of Americans died on this spot so you could come here and @#$% on their sacrifices"................he just looked at me and kept piling his kids onto the monument.
What a clueless wonder.