I found this on Buzzfeed.com - In 1938, Roosevelt met with them at a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, at which he gave a speech to dedicate the Eternal Light Peace Memorial. The ceremony was also captured on film and shown on newsreels in movie theaters.
If you ever saw The Civil War on pubic broadcasting, you knew that. Most of those guys had to have been teenagers at the time of the battle. They showed the old soldiers walking up to the stone wall and shaking hands. They even had an old Johnny Reb doing the Rebel Yell (which sounded like an English fox hunting call).
ReplyDeleteAnd how many people back then KNEW FDR was a cripple but never said anything? The entire Washington Press Corps had to be complicit in keeping him in office for 4 terms. It might have been a 5th if he hadn't died.
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