简杨长周末好！

我就更不好意思了， 我的儿子只认识他们的姓这一个中国字。

这个长周末带大儿子去Gettysburg参加足球比赛，这几年每年这个周末都是在Gettysburg度过的，球场就在一百多年前南北战争的战场附近，今天抽空去战场遗址照了几张照片。

Cemetery Hill












Cemetery Hill from Wikipedia

Cemetery Hill is a key terrain feature in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the northernmost extent of Cemetery Ridge. It played prominent roles in all three days of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1–3, 1863.

During the battle, Cemetery Hill was a critical part of the Union army defensive line, the curved portion of what is described as the "fish-hook" line. There were three important characteristics to the hill. First, its gentle slope made it excellent defensive ground against the infantry tactics of the era. Second, it was an outstanding artillery platform with good fields of fire (unlike the neighboring Culp's Hill, which was heavily wooded), dominating wide swaths of the town and other parts of the battlefield. Third, and most importantly, it was a concentration point for three major roads that led south: Emmitsburg Road, Taneytown Road, and the Baltimore Pike. These roads were critical for keeping the Union army supplied and for blocking any Confederate advance on Baltimore or Washington, D.C.

Before the battle, Cemetery Hill (originally named Raffensperger's Hill, after farmer Peter Raffensperger, who owned over 6 acres (24,000 m2) on the eastern slope) was the site of Evergreen Cemetery, a civilian burial ground established in 1854. It was joined afterwards by the adjacent Gettysburg National Cemetery, which was dedicated by Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Cemetery Hill上的纪念碑

儿子的球场，就在Oak Ridge下面。Oak Ridge是Gettysburg战役第一仗的战场，在这里北方联军的防线被突破而大败于南方军队。

站在Oak Ridge上看到的球场。左边的马路是Mummasburg Road，南北战争时就有了。


从球场上看过去

阿蓉节日好。谢谢照片。

Gettysburg这个地名很熟悉，因为林肯那个著名的演说。那个演说中我印象最深的短语：

these dead shall not have died in vain...

...government of the people, by the people, for the people

云烟在川县贴出了Gettysburg Address的全文。

The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

相关的两张照片

问降E，云烟，简杨，知了好。

阿蓉去台湾了？台北街头有点象熟悉的成都街头。玩好。回成都的话，有时间的话，请多拍点成都街头的照片。多谢。

蓉儿/E教周末好!

蓉儿又飞到宝岛了, 去了鹿港小镇么? :-)

云烟，降E周末好。

见到了美丽的基隆港。

蓉儿大师美片如诗! :-)

Enjoy your stay!


跑题. ;)

谢云烟。昨天回到家里了。

各位长周末好！

台南，从酒店房间的窗口看出去。

我住的酒店是台南最高的建筑，我住在顶层。

台中，路过时在车里拍的照片。

宜兰，离台北大约一个小时的车程。到处可见大片的稻田。

日月潭

很漂亮的台湾景色。

降E三哥长周末好！

改版做得很不错，辛苦了。

蓉儿/E教 and all, happy Independence Day weekend! :-)

E教版面做得雅致. "乐"用繁体字会不会更漂亮? :-)

跟着阿蓉的美照游宝岛, 眼前飘起几位朋友的笑影, 宜兰, 台中的都有.
现在人懒且无闲, 不然还真想涂两笔.

蓉儿玩好. 我暂时不去川线凑热闹了.

我想到了你和院长，阿香阿乐等几位摄影大专家，所以专门将摄影突出出来了。希望看到他们来贴照片。