http://www.historynet.com/gettysburg-maps-sesquicentennial-strategy.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gettysburg-maps-sesquicentennial-strategy From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.historynet.com/gettysburg-maps-sesquicentennial-strategy.htm#comment-227005 Gregg Jones Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:33:41 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681832#comment-227005 This is great news. At last we are seeing some action in getting the Sesquicentennial started. So far, in my opinion, this has been bogged down in the molasses of political correctness. The Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission has done nothing but wave a little blue book over their heads that shows all the mistakes of the Centennial (1961-1961). At that time segregationalists and integrationalists were involved in the Civil Rights movement. Each had their own agenda for how the Centennial would be run. Now there is a fear that reenactments are bad. Just as your German, Mr. Schmid, is uneasy about remembering battles in Germany after the events of the first and second World Wars, we too are scared that we could be politically incorrect. Reenacting is becoming an issue that needs to be settled now before 2011. If you want to just educate all the people about the American Civil War you are going to bore them to death. If you also try to entertain them you will see the tourist dollar. Use reenactments and they will come to your events. You will see that $400,000 infusion into Gettysburg. Is you don’t there will be people but not in the numbers you seek. Don’t be too cerebral that you forget to celebrate. History should never be confused with nostalgia. It is not to glorify the dead but to teach and inspire the living to new and better things. It is our cultural bloodstream. It is the secret 11 different herbs and spices that define who we are and what we are capable of. It tells us let go of the past even as we honor it. We should lament what is lamentable and celebrate what should be celebrated. And if history reveals itself as a patriot, so be it.” This is great news. At last we are seeing some action in getting the Sesquicentennial started. So far, in my opinion, this has been bogged down in the molasses of political correctness. The Virginia Sesquicentennial Commission has done nothing but wave a little blue book over their heads that shows all the mistakes of the Centennial (1961-1961). At that time segregationalists and integrationalists were involved in the Civil Rights movement. Each had their own agenda for how the Centennial would be run. Now there is a fear that reenactments are bad. Just as your German, Mr. Schmid, is uneasy about remembering battles in Germany after the events of the first and second World Wars, we too are scared that we could be politically incorrect. Reenacting is becoming an issue that needs to be settled now before 2011. If you want to just educate all the people about the American Civil War you are going to bore them to death. If you also try to entertain them you will see the tourist dollar. Use reenactments and they will come to your events. You will see that $400,000 infusion into Gettysburg. Is you don’t there will be people but not in the numbers you seek. Don’t be too cerebral that you forget to celebrate. History should never be confused with nostalgia. It is not to glorify the dead but to teach and inspire the living to new and better things. It is our cultural bloodstream. It is the secret 11 different herbs and spices that define who we are and what we are capable of. It tells us let go of the past even as we honor it. We should lament what is lamentable and celebrate what should be celebrated. And if history reveals itself as a patriot, so be it.”

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