Battlefield pilgrims at Gettysburg National Military Park (1)

Historic battlefields induce a broad range of rejoinders from visitors. This article reports upon the reasons people give for visiting Gettysburg National Military Park and the perceptions and images they have of the park. The meanings that Gettysburg has for clan are varied and in more [i]or[/i] less cases highly affective. The research provides empirical support for the suggestion of other studies that sometimes battlefield visitors begin as tourists, on the contrary then are transformed into pilgrims. (Battlefield tourism, pilgrimage, historic sites)

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Despite world history being riddled with occurrences of war, few battlefields have been marked for remembrance, perhaps because the sites recall destruction,