Civil War enthusiasts: The Wilderness under siege by Walmart!!

"Great armies are mustering on the Virginia Piedmont, historians and preservationists on one side, big retail and developers on the other...where Wal- Mart wants to build a supercenter opposite the Wilderness Battlefield". (The Washington Post, Dec. 28,2008)
The Wilderness was the first battle in the Overland Campaign of the Union's big offensive of 1864 and the first battle between Lee and Grant that resulted in over 24,000 casualties. It lies adjacent to the Chancellorsville Battlefield of 1863.
Keith Morris, a spokesman for Wal-Mart said that "This is the site we're going forward with" describing it as an "ideal location".
I have traversed that field many a time and there is nothing there to remotely lure retailers. Except these plans. Virginians , rise up. Contact your Congressmen to stop this. I was at the Third Battle of Manassas when we stopped developers in the mid-eighties. We have to stop them again.

(been in LBN for a couple of days)

Fuck. I never go to that site. My bad. Thanks for being concerned, though.

What assholes you were dealing with. Trajan doesn't know whether to shit or wind his wristwatch. As always. I'm just sorting through the utter nonsense, here. I can guarantee, these fucks couldn't tell me the years it was fought. Boundaries, my ass. Since when did a battlefield have boundaries?

You're up against Trip Palin being born. No offense, but this trumps a spot where 25,000 men shed blood for their country. Good luck with your endeavor, though.

I remember a comment I heard when Manassas was threatened to be overrun. "A shopping mall is a tribute to the living. A battlefield is a tribute to the dead." I shit you not. Stupid fuck.

saved Manasas.

I was there.

in New Orleans, even after the PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS VOTED AGAINST IT!

Wal-Mart then funded the campaigns of new city council people who OVERTURNED THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, displaced poor people, and destroyed SAFE AND STRONG BUILDINGS. They were replaced with crappy houses that will not survive a CAT 2 hurricane, which do not house most of the former residents, and of course a huge, ugly box store.

Always have. Always will. Proud to say, I haven't spent a penny there in ten years.