The National Park Service is tearing down trees and a 1960s-era visitors’ center at Gettysburg National Park in order, it says, to restore the sight lines from the 1863 Civil War battlefield. But if you have been there you realize that after all the crap littering that park — mainly heart felt monuments to the tens of thousands of fallen, but eye-sores nonetheless — there is not much left to “restore.” It’s a shame, but true. Check out this photo from today’s Washington Post; it proves the point.
