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onservatives are always being admonished to remember that “you can't turn the clock back.” But you can.

One of the first columns this columnist wrote, in a career now in its 27th year, was a denunciation of the plan to build a privately owned observation tower that would loom 307 feet over some of America's most hallowed ground, the battlefield at Gettysburg. The tower has been an eyesore for a quarter of a century. But it may have met, so to speak, its Waterloo.

A federal judge has ruled that the National Park Service can acquire the tower through eminent domain and demolish it. The owner of the tower will be compensated to the tune of $3 million. I neither know nor want to know whether this is an arrogant “taking” by the government, violating property rights. If it is, I am prepared to enjoy in practice what I deplore in principle.

Unless the owner succeeds in an appeal to a higher court, the demolition will occur on July 3, the 137th anniversary of the climactic day of the battle, which featured Pickett's charge. Perfect.

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