John Spratt: “Mr. Speaker, this is about the most important part of the campaign for the revolution, the revolution in the South…”

“Mr. Speaker, this is about the most important part of the campaign for the revolution, the revolution in the South, where the revolution was largely won after the fall of Charleston in the back country. The whole matter has been popularized by Mel Gibson and others in a movie called The Patriot. The story now needs to be told right. There are over 200 battles and skirmishes, military incidents. We need this national corridor to tell it right. We had 1 million visitors to 8 different battlefields in South Carolina in the year 2000, and even more now. This is a perfectly fit bill for those circumstances. The story needs to be told right and well. I would like to commend the chairman and the ranking member for allowing this bill to come to the floor. I urge everyone to vote for it.”