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In the background is
the 20th Massachusetts Regiment Monument,

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which is located on Cemetery Ridge.

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We also know that Colonel Sheads
talked about this monument and the troops

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that were involved here
with President Kennedy.

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One of the reasons he did this is because
their nickname is the Harvard Regiment.

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And, of course, Kennedy would have been
a graduate of Harvard College.

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Additionally, for me, at least,

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this particular monument
is one of the ugliest ones on the field.

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It's made of puddingstone
or conglomerate,

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but that ugliness, I think, is only skin
deep.

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The story itself behind the monument,
I think is quite beautiful

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because in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
this large stone that you see to my rear

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was on the town square back
in the 19th century, and many of these

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boys of the 20th Massachusetts
played around that puddingstone rock,

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since many of them would not be going home
after this battle,

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they decided to bring the rock here.