Un Monumental Gettysburg

Gettysburg is a rambling countryside marked with hundreds (thousands?) of small monuments and occasionally large monuments. It is unique in that it marks very specific instances in the battle where things worth marking happened. Not every soldier is mentioned, but every battalion, regiment, etc have their place. Every state that fought there has its monument, Pennsylvania's being the grandest. One needs more than a day to walk/drive across the Battlefield and see everything, but it often leads to numbness and disinterest in the monument. The monuments become diluted by their numbers. It is monumental in its scope, less so in experience. There is no one singular, all encompassing monument on the site. The question is, does Gettysburg need one? Can what I want to express fit into Gettysburg? I am interested in marking a turning point, a point where we say "we made a mistake, it will never happen again." Gettysburg doesn't say this, it marks where tragic events happen, but pays no homage to what brought these tragedies to Gettysburg. My "sustainable monument" for lack of a better term, will attempt to address the core of our problems, not its consequences. It will be a monument before the fact, not after. If death is so important that it is worth memorializing, wouldn't resources best be suited to preventing death rather than remembering it? No one will be there to memorialize the death of industrial society if and when our natural resources run out and we enter a new ice age or whatever is the projection of our unsustainable society. Gettysburg is a significant place in our history, in a very insignificant setting. Depletion of our resources is a significant problem with its roots in poor practices at the suburban level, practices which multiply. If anything in such a setting can have an impact in changing the way we think, it is a positive gesture. We don't see the impact of our unsustainable practices in Gettysburg, therefore we are not inclined do anything about them. There are major issues that have hit Gettysburg in the past, and they are still there only in a different form. People need to be enlightened on this level. Can the built form have anything to do with this? That's what I'm working on.