I went when I was really young. I think I mainly visited resorts and amusement parks.
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The Vietnam Memorial.
Thier cause was just.
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Definitely the USS Missouri. About 1,000 yards away is the Arizona.
Lastly, they got a military museum in Waikiki. Gift shop highly recommended
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Generally the smaller and less ostentatious the better. Am always moved by the WW1 village ones you see everywhere. WW2 names are added and are always so few, compared to the longer Great War lists.
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I think the fields around Gettysburg provided me the most fascination of any memorial (yes, it’s a memorial, even if it’s just a battlefield, plus they do have several memorials scattered around the site). The sacred silence that permeates the entire site is gripping, and you can read the different lists of casualties either on memorials or in history books, but seeing across a field, and realizing that whole regiments of men were swallowed up in minutes… Well, overwhelming, or at least it was for me at the time.
Now, I just need to go to Stalingrad and go to the memorial on Mamayev Kurgan and put things into perspective.
GG
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Why Stalingrad?
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@wittman:
Why Stalingrad?
On that hill, 1 rifle division was buried by artillery fire in 1 day.
GG
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The entire Division?
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Just looked on wiki. Chuikov is buried there.
Too far East for me though.
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The entire Division?
Give or take, yes. But, they buried a roughly equal amount of German soldiers. Quite a story and memorial.
GG
P.S. This is the memorial that sits atop the hill.
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The Alamo!
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@Imperious:
Definitely the USS Missouri. About 1,000 yards away is the Arizona.
Lastly, they got a military museum in Waikiki. Gift shop highly recommended
Re-enlisted on the Arizona….nice, but too 70ish for me…if you can get on base, the Parche memorial, the Subbase Chapel, with meeting the subvets is pretty neat, and Punchbowl is always nice to go to…
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