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(YDR) Violet Clark remembers her most profound visit to the Gettysburg battlefield -- a foggy day one July when she came close to seeing what the battlefield would look like filled with cannon smoke.
The Tennessee native remembered her ancestors who fought on both sides, and although she had visited the same place 20 times before, she wept like it was her first experience there.
It's that kind of authentic experience that would be diminished by the lights and sounds and traffic from a proposed casino resort less than a mile from the Gettysburg National Military Park, Clark told a crowd of about 150 Thursday night at a meeting organized by No Casino Gettysburg. Continued
Image: Gettysburg Battlefield, 1918 (Library of Congress)
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