[Moo] Wilderness Battlefied Petition

[jason bowser]

It makes me very angry to see our hallowed ground being disturbed by crap
like that.

Wal-Mart is notorious for this kind of thing.  They have no empathy or
respect for anything, just money and how to put it in thier pockets.  I just
posted a rant about that in my Facebook the other day. The Civil War
Preservation Trust is also doing the best they can to fight Wal-Mart at
every angle.

Matter of fact the latest issue of the CWPT's magazine has an emergency
donation card on the last page, just for thier fight against Wal-Mart...

www.civilwar.org  is thier site and it has details and information on what
they are doing in the fight, and how everyone can help.

We all need to fight the good fight for our honored dead.

Jason
Ponte Alto

2009/3/24 Shannon D. Combs-Bennett <sdcbennett at alumni.indiana.edu>

>  Greetings to the Group,
>
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> This email has nothing to do with the SCA, just so you know up front.  It
> does have to do with an ongoing struggle in my neighborhood with Wal-Mart.
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> For those of you who don’t know, I live 3 miles from Wilderness Battlefield
> (what is left of it) and the corner of Rtes 3 and 20.  Wal-mart wants to
> build a 140,000 square foot bldg there and be the anchor point for a
> shopping complex larger than Central Park eventually spreading over 1,000
> acres.
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> That is not the problem.  In fact most people here would welcome having
> some stores in their area, in the already zoned commercial property that
> starts ½ a mile down the road from where they want to build right off of Rte
> 3.  However, that land is not what Wal-mart wants.  There are several
> petitions going right now, and so far Wal-mart has said there is no legal
> reason for them to move and construction will begin this fall.
>
>
>
> Yesterday in the house, representatives from Vermont and Texas spoke out
> about this and have been moving legislation thought their states to try and
> stop this building.  Vermont and Texas lost significant numbers of men in
> the Wilderness campaign, and the proposed site of the store is on the land
> these men camped and died.
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> If you are interested in reading more please see the following links:
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> 1 minute speech from the floor of congress:
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> http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=3591
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> Orange county Moevement:
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> www.pecva.org/orange
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> PEC Orange Office
> 130 Main Street, Suite 206
> Orange, VA 22960
> 540-672-0141
>
> Also, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield
> http://www.fowb.org
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> Yours,
>
> Rhonwen…today just a concerned and upset citizen
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