<font color="beige"><b>My feeling is moving the building would be the last resort, it's context has a lot to do with where it was built.
There may be greater historical significance to memorials placed on the field during the late 1800's and early 1900's because many of these were placed by the veterans of the battle. Those memorials placed during the 1960's to the present, I think equally represent what people at that time felt were appropriate and only add to the on going history of the battlefield.
This building is not a cheap motel or a fast food joint....the building was commissioned by the park service, designed by a renowned architect specifically for the location, it's situated in the landscape in such a way that you would be hard pressed to spot it from most any location on the battlefield. It was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
I've been a long time supporter of battle field preservation, a member of CWPT and Friends of Gettysburg for many years. I applaud the work that has been done at Gettysburg to return the field to it's 1860's appearance and sight lines, but 1860 is long past and even the best that can be achieved is still little more than a caricature of that moment in time. Gettysburg, maybe more so than any of our Civil War battlefields is more than an area of land which witnessed a battle, it has over the years since become a testament to those that remember what happened there and how they commemorated that memory....that's why I would like to see it saved.</b></font id="beige">
<center> <font color="beige"><b>General R.A.'Bob'Weir </b></font id="beige">
<font color="green"><b><font size="4">CSA Eastern Theater Commander</b></font id="size4"></font id="green">
<b>ACWGC Cabinet Member</b> </center>