Pennsylvania XLVII

More than 7,000 dead.

More than 1,300 monuments.

Wandering among these, the history, the tragedy, the monumental loss of the deadliest battle of the Civil War, you might never imagine that a memorial to those lost in Vietnam would exist.

You would be mistaken.

Gettysburg College honors the 14 lost to the war, including one Medal of Honor recipient.

Gettysburg is a small college founded in the early 1830's, it currently has a student population of about 2,200. In the very few records I could find then population was not terribly different during the war years.

 

"We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning

We were young. We have died. Remember us."

                                                                                       Archibald MacLeish

This oft repeated quote from Archibald MacLeish sums up the hopes of the lost.

 

 

The College has said it well, too.