We loved Gettysburg: married there, took dozens of week-long trips, spent
many thousands of dollars there, and even considered moving there. But those
days are over thanks to park superintendent John Latschar. He's ruining the
Gettysburg battlefield. He calls it restoration. Desecration is more
descriptive. If we spent another dime we'd be supporting the destruction. We
refuse.
Trees are being ripped out wholesale. The deer have been slaughtered.
Visiting on a November evening is an experience everyone should be able to
enjoy, but he shortened the decades-old operating hours so you'll be
ticketed and labeled criminals. He threw up so many one-way signs that
traffic in town has become a tourist's nightmare. His nonsense goes on and
on.
He likes saying, "The time for comment was during the planning, not now."
Well, Bozo, the public DID and continues to comment, but you ignore them.
Tens of 1000s have voiced their concern, but you act as though the
Gettysburg battlefield is your own private domain to use and abuse as you
please. It belongs to the taxpayers, not an arrogant, government-appointed
bureaucratic freeloader.
Gettysburg battlefield ghost hunters have been turned away in droves because
he equates them with drug users and drinkers. What a moron. Not only is the
town losing a fortune toward the local economy, the park is losing thousands
of watchful eyes from some of the most respectful visitors. Those with evil
intent will always gain access at night as was proven by recent vandalism.
Closing the park merely keeps honest folks out. John Latschar has, in
effect, given vandals free rein.
Attendance is lagging. He blames everything except his own bumbling. He
constantly moans about never having enough money to fix rotting cannons,
monuments and buildings, yet continues wasting funds on mindnumbingly
senseless projects that divide the townspeople and drives others away. It's
typical government ineptness.
Looks like John Latschar sits around dreaming up new ways to piss people
off. If he's not shooting the wildlife, cutting down 100s of acres of trees,
changing the hours or screwing up traffic flow, he'll devise some other
dumbass plan. Chances are he'll eventually move on to another location
leaving his mess and debts behind for someone else. It wouldn't be the first
time.
What's worse than allowing John Latschar to inflict so much damage to the
Gettysburg battlefield? Most of you sit idly by and let it happen without so
much as a whimper. Talk is cheap, but a Gettysburg boycott speaks volumes.
We're doing our part. Good bye Gettysburg. You were our favorite place on
Earth until John Latschar raped you. Now you're just a memory. What a pity
and disgrace.
Cassie and Tom
http://users.snip.net/~hart/
Do you think you could hire John Latschar to arbitrate between Charlie Nudo
and DesertBob?
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Gary E. Tayman/Tayman Electrical
Sound Solutions For Classic Cars
http://www.taymanelectrical.com
...because some fruitcake retired with too much money
and/or time on their hands say so. Good enuf for me!
Cucukoo..!! Cucukoo..!! Cucukoo..!! Cucukoo..!!
>I have often thought of auctioning a transistor radio "that was used by Abraham
>Lincoln" on eBay.
.. sorry, transistors where not yet invented ... so Lincoln's set must
have been vacuum tube ... too bad the "theater" didn't broadcast
the live performance so there would have been a choice to attend
or not ...
Dr. Miguelito Loveless was already using remote controlled vehicles
while attempting to kill James West and Artemus Gordon! Why not?
ZO! Tell ushzabout your Philllcoe, Herr Gahree!
Glue a penny on it. It will be the sesquicentennial in a few years, and
English schoolboys everywhere will want it.
Anti semetic perhaps? What drugs are you on anyway?
Stupid German psychiatrist accent.
What pills are YOU on, Gary?
Oh, zo zorry, I needs more Malox
His favorite. Honest to God, home grown stupidity.
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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida