SaturdayJul25,2020at12:01AM

July Fourth weekend I traveled to the Gettysburg andAntietam battlefields. In Gettysburg I was appalled at what I saw. Homeland Security had set up a command post and placed its vans close to various monuments in the battlefield, FBI vans were driving up and down the battlefield along with State Highway Patrol cars and lots of park rangers. Something was happening in Gettysburg and it was not the reenactment of the 1863 battle.

Over the last several years we have witnessed the disabling of American history and culture but to see it firsthand was shocking. I traveled to the Robert E. Lee monument and there they were: the protesters, anarchists and, of course, BLM. How America has changed since my parentsfirst took me to Gettysburg in 1963 as a young boy!

Rewriting a nation's history is frequently one of the firststrategies taken by a conquering force. Why? Because a people who do not know where they came from also do not know where they are going. While this phenomenon has occurred repeatedly throughout history, today it is happening to our beloved country. It is happening through the rewriting and/or reinterpretation of American historical records, in our national parks, monuments, memorials, landmarks, shrines and churches. In some cases changes are subtle, and in others, blatant. It's done through the removal of key historic pieces that dont support current socialist bias. It's also done through emphasis and de-emphasis of historical periods according to what fits a mode. In fact, the history of our founding period has been eroded and eliminated, almostto the point of oblivion, in our schools.

The time has arrived when we, the people, need to take control of this systematic destruction of our nation and our past. To reclaim our nation from the destructive forces of humanism, secularism and socialism we must retrieve the true history and past of our country, the good and the bad. We are at a crossroads as a nation for our very soul and each of us must determine where we stand for the future of America.

Kenneth Hammontree

Ashland

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Letter to the editor: We must retrieve true history - Record-Courier