 |  Gettysburg Casino Proposal
24 May 2005
Plans to open a casino and spa nearby the historic Gettysburg battlefield site were announced by an investment group. The execution of the project is conditioned on the group’s ability to win a casino slots license. According to the History News Network, some historians are upset about the thought of slot machines cranking away only a few miles from the historic battle site many consider to be the turning point in the Civil War.
Critics say that the casino operation would demean one of the nation's most sacred historic sites, where more than 40,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed during a three-day battle in July of 1863.
Princeton University historian James McPherson, who helped in abolishing a community planned on part of the Manassas battlefield in Virginia in 1994, said the Gettysburg casino slots proposal is insulting: "Nothing could be a greater besmirchment of the sacrifice of the men who fought and died there", McPherson wrote in an e-mail to The Patriot-News of Harrisburg. "By failing to honor their memory in this fashion, we would dishonor ourselves." |
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