The Wilderness Alert !!!!

[Pvt Schnapps]

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Great so we look as idiotic as they do chained to tree turning more people away from our cause. Steller thinking folks.

Actually, Brian, acts of defiance sometimes do alert folks to the fact that short term profits can result in permanent losses to the community at large. Everyone should be allowed to make a living, but commercial overdevelopment serves no one.

Chantilly is a great illustration. A bare trace of the original battlefield remains to show us what we lost just so we could have more mall space. Virginia has more than enough brick and mortar retail space, but it can't replace its heritage.

It's particularly galling to have this nuttiness go up now, given that technology has come increasingly close to making mega-stores obsolete altogether. Twenty years from now people will wonder just what the heck we thought we were getting from paving over more of our historically significant countryside just for parking spaces and industrial buildings vending cheap crap from China on credit.

I'd be happy to make a modest gentleman's bet on who looks silliest then.

[2ndNHDOC]

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Jason, now thats thinking. If the Enviromentalists can stop deforresting our North West then why cant we at least draw attention to this cause and maybe just maybe stop the developement.

Great so we look as idiotic as they do chained to tree turning more people away from our cause. Steller thinking folks.

[PetePaolillo]

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In response to my article which ran in two newspapers, Mark Johnson wrote only this to me:

"You are very young and very arrogant. With age you may come to realize how puerile and offensive your comments and tactics are. Or maybe not."

It took me five weeks worth of census research to write it.

disregard, I found the article, Thanks....and Good job to you Drew.

[Busterbuttonboy]

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In response to my article which ran in two newspapers, Mark Johnson wrote only this to me:

"You are very young and very arrogant. With age you may come to realize how puerile and offensive your comments and tactics are. Or maybe not."

It took me five weeks worth of census research to write it.

[FlatLandFed]

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The supervisor's comments in the Times article leave me with an empty feeling.

Wal-mart continued to ramp up the amount of revenue this venture was supposed to bring to the community, and those changing figures were great to him -- but, whoa, the "incompetent" historical agency sends an updated map to describe the significance of the area and of course that's wrong to him.

Only "Yankee deserters" in the area? Many times on this and other boards there have been heated discussions on whether some of us take our geographical backgrounds too seriously -- but this man's language is insulting to all Americans.

What a creepo. Virginia can do better next election.

Sadly,
Paul Hadley

[shubal]

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This one 'bout put me over the edge and I'm not even a big Vermont fan.

From one of the Supervisors,

Burkett also took a shot at the Vermont legislature, which early on objected to the Walmart near where soldiers from their state perished in the Battle of the Wilderness. He said he was "pretty sure the only troops that went through there were Yankee deserters."

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2...ex_html?page=2

[hollowleg]

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well iam done with wal mart also! :baring_te



Donald Holm

[Prodical Reb]

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according to their (Walmart) plan some of the store developement is as close as 50 ft off of Rt 3. Ask them to explain that! That is a long cry from 17 acres.

[NewHopeChurch]

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This is interesting....I went to the Wal Mart comment page yesterday to speak my mind, which I did:

I realize that this message should not be directed at your location, but rather at Wal-Mart Corporate HQ. However, your feedback submission makes it exceedingly difficult to locate said headquarters (despite claims to the contrary), and therefore it's going to you Supercenter #1.

I've been a lifelong shopper at Wal-Mart - I've always valued the wide selection, the low prices, and the general shoppability of your stores. However, that all changes today. To think that an American company such as this would willingly and persistently fight to place a superstore location at the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia is shocking. It's deplorable. American history was reshaped during the years 1861-1865 by the Civil War, and yet you make no attempts to even consider placing your store in a less historically sensitive spot within the same region in Orange County, VA. I had hoped that the Board of Supervisors there would use common sense and not allow your company the special use permit required to build your store, but apparently common sense is no longer the rule of the day.

Therefore, you have lost a customer who was - until now - willing to trade you money for goods so that he may do what needs to be done in his life, and so that you may grow your company as you see fit. You have seen that vision poorly, however. Thus, I will exert as much effort as is required to ensure that all I contact see your company as I now do, and implore them to spread the word as well. I aim to hurt your company financially so that you may no longer hurt this country, and this world, culturally.

I hope Target, and Kroger, and Publix, and every small-town store you haven't killed yet has the parking capacity to accomodate their increased business. They're going to need it.

Tonight, they actually replied, which shocks me:

Dear Jonathan, Thank you for taking the time to contact us. We have designed the store so that Wal-Mart will not be seen from the preserved Wilderness Battlefield Park according to our Viewshed analysis. This included placing the store as far to the rear of the site as possible and placing 17 acres, in the area closest to the highway, in a conservation easement as an added buffer.

Sincerely,Walmart Customer Care

Hm.

[unclefrank]

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More crappy jobs for all!!! Long live WalMart.

[PetePaolillo]

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Anyone care to help me pitch camp and be all ole tymey/defiant in the face of a bulldozer?

Jason, I applaud that effort if you decide to do it. I won't be able to join you but if you need money for food, signs or something for this endeavor I would like to help in some way.

[sepoy1857]

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Add me to the "boycotting Walmart" list as well.

[Marylander in Grey]

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Jason, now thats thinking. If the Enviromentalists can stop deforresting our North West then why cant we at least draw attention to this cause and maybe just maybe stop the developement.

[Shockoe Hill Cats]

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Anyone care to help me pitch camp and be all ole tymey/defiant in the face of a bulldozer?

[BrandonEnglish]

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Not a huge fan before, but now I will boycott Wal-Mart completely, drop my wife's Sam's Club membership and avoid Walgreen's as much as possible.

They don't value my sentiments. They don't try to understand my views. They don't respect my ancestors' efforts.

They apparently have no need for me or my potential to buy their products. So be it.

Such a shameful, dark day.

What he said! I have been done with Wal-Mart for awhile, but I will do my best to encourage others not to shop there.