Gettysburg 'witness tree' falls (AP/CNN)

eppur_se_muova

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Gettysburg 'witness tree' falls (AP/CNN)

Edited on Sun Aug-10-08 10:54 PM by eppur_se_muova

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Standing just 150 feet from the platform on which President Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, one of the few remaining "witness trees" to the Battle of Gettysburg has been severely damaged by a storm, National Park Service officials said.

The huge honey locust tree on Cemetery Hill fell Thursday evening.

"The top of it is totally broken off, and severely damaged 70 to 80 percent of the tree," Gettysburg National Military Park spokeswoman Jo Sanders said. "That means there's not a whole lot left of it. But it didn't kill the tree."

The tree, which stood on the right side of the Union lines, "was there as a silent witness -- to the battle, to the aftermath, to the burials, to the dedication of the cemetery," park historian John Heiser said.

"I have no doubt that Union soldiers sat under it for all three days of the battle," he said.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/09/historic.tree.ap/index.html

edit:No, it's not BBC.

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RB TexLa

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Sun Aug-10-08 10:52 PM
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1. We really should develop civil war sites, rid our history of them.

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Selatius

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Sun Aug-10-08 10:57 PM
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2. America will fall one day too. All things change. nt

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charlie and algernon

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Sun Aug-10-08 11:17 PM
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3. damn, that sucks.

Guess it was bound to happen. Better than hearing they built a McDonalds at Devils Den, lol.

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Sun Aug-10-08 11:27 PM
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4. Lincoln's ghost returned, no doubt, and is trying to send a message

to GWB and McCain to stop bringing shame on the Republican Party and the nation.

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