Via Bob: What mystifies me is that there is another unused fort in Charleston Harbor - - Castle Pinckney - - that isn't part of the Sumter/Moultrie historic sites, and is in fact privately owned. Add that one and the old Morris Island Lighthouse and you could have a good "Charleston Harbor National Historic Park."
Tim Stone spreads his hands defenselessly on top of the wall of Fort
Sumter that faces the Charleston shipping channel. This wall withstood
cannon bombardment from Fort Moultrie and offshore warships, a landmark
of American history.
“It could fall as we stand here right now,” the fort’s National Park Service superintendent said.
On the 100th anniversary of the national parks, they, like their state
counterparts, are in dire straits — more than $12 billion behind in
maintenance and operating on a $3 billion budget. That’s even though the
parks nationwide brought in 307 million visitors in 2015 and generated
$32 billion in economic activity, according to the federal Department of
the Interior.
National parks, like state parks, are underfunded and consequently
understaffed, falling behind in maintenance, pressured by government
leaders to pay for themselves to operate.
The three national parks near Charleston — Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie
and the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site — are cumulatively more
than $10 million behind in maintenance. The backlog statewide is more
than $235 million.
More @ The Post & Courier
A terrible national embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteAll that money over all those years, the roads, the bridges, these national treasures, where did all that money go?
To line pockets. Some went to voters pockets, most went to whores sitting in leather chairs, bluish cigar smoke wafting over their heads in a domed building on a hill in DC.
Today, 7-4-16 we celebrate free-dumb.
I stole free-dumb from Western Shooter's blog.
Yes, despicable.
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I stole free-dumb from Western Shooter's blog.
Good enough for me!
I doubt this is accidental. More a long term plan to eliminate our American history. Once these sites are gone they will be purged from all texts.
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Hadn't thought of that, but may be.
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