Sometime during the night of February 15 some enterprising individuals took it upon themselves to go on on a demolition spree at Gettysburg National Military Park. Three monuments, dedicated to the 11th Massachusetts, 114th Pennsylvania, and the 4th New York Independent Battery were vandalized. The damage to these irreplaceable atrifacts is estimated to be at least $100,000. Each monument celebrates the actions of a different unit in Sickle's III Corps, and were placed by the veterans themselves in the 1880's so that we all might might remember their sacrifice.
Try as I might, I can't understand what goes through the heads of the type of people who would do something like this. Are you protesting something, or just getting wasted and deciding it would be fun to dishonor the men who gave their lives for your freedom? Let us hope these scumbags are caught and given the full sentence ($250,000 fine and 10 years in a pound me in the ass prison) for their crimes. More pictures, information, and donation info can be found at Civil War Interactive
