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Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Below is an article from the Culpeper Star-Exponent with
excerpts from the Friends of Wilderness Battlefield's annual meeting in Locust Grove, Virginia.
The speakers included Russ Smith, Superintendent of the Fredericksburg Spotsylvania
National Military
Park and Senator Edd
Houck and Delegate Ed Scott of the Virginia Ge...neral Assembly. The
speakers had some very impressive comments at the meeting. Check it out.

Official: Tactical regrouping will save battlefield | Culpeper Star-Exponent
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FoWB hear updates on Walmart issue during annual meeting
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November 17 at 7:43am
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Amazing letter to the editor that really puts into place the true damage the Orange County Board of Supervisors did when they approved the Special Use Permit for Walmart. As always, your thoughts and comments are encouraged!

Fredericksburg.com - Orange allowed anti-memorial to war heroes
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Fredericksburg, Virginia: The news and information source for the Fredericksburg, Virginia area, VA newspaper, The Free Lance-Star, Virginia. Yellow Pages
November 17 at 5:52am
James W. Durney
James W. Durney
Board of Supervisors tend to not care for preservation. This group is right up there with the Spring Hill bunch.
November 17 at 6:22am
Lawrence Wesson
Lawrence Wesson
The Board of Supervisors are a reflection of the community that they are in and that is NOT a compliment. So many of the American Public are smitten by the power-play act of shopping that to them, having a Walmart is a sign of great accomplishment and that is NOT a compliment. Their lives delve amongst that which is little, mundane and repetitive... See More and shopping is a self done act of empowerment as tiny as it may seem to an outsider.

In short, history means little to such people. Per the constant drumbeat of self righteous mantra about property rights one can assume if people without taste have a go at it you will find monstrosities like a Walmart willingly flopped out on top of just about everything. The Wilderness could not pick out it's community much like we cannot pick out our family.

It is a thought but those who were consumed in the needlessly bloody war for Southern Independence are far better examples of human kind than the current residents and caretakers. Far better!
November 17 at 7:18am
Robert Benbenek
Robert Benbenek
Ya know if the people want a Wal-Mart... why don't start a boycott of their businesses... I know there are are few that work on a national level ... I know where I won't get roof joist anymore or recommend
November 17 at 12:49pm
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Here is more negative comments on the Wilderness. Please help out by leaving a comment to counter the letter. Thanks!

Fredericksburg.com - Where were the preservationists then?
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Fredericksburg, Virginia: The news and information source for the Fredericksburg, Virginia area, VA newspaper, The Free Lance-Star, Virginia. Yellow Pages
November 2 at 6:34am
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Robert Benbenek
Robert Benbenek
Really sick when I posted this but I brought it up at Cedar Creek.... People kinda liked it
November 2 at 8:18am
Lawrence Wesson
Lawrence Wesson
Jane Settle does have a most damning point that little blotches of retail were allowed to "develop" and preservationists did not swoop in and buy the land or try to stop such. Too bad. Yet letting the behemoth Walmart just plop in and settle where ever their beady eyed little retail analysts find appealing does indeed need some introspection and ... See Morecorrection.

Don't expect a soft hearted introspection from the Terminator like dollar making machine of Walmart. Don't expect it from the ZOMBIE like shoppers who relish shopping, convenience, cheapness OVER anything that resembles community, country, history and the like as such are mere quaint relics of some unintelligible past. I bet they found their social studies classes, b o r i n g. I know, I taught such classes and looked into their dead eyes and saw shoppers.

And driving to the next county? I guess I am jaded but my drive here in Houston to a Walmart would be akin to driving across three counties there. Heavens!
November 3 at 6:26am
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Terrific Editorial on Walmart's economic practices and the Wilderness Battlefield. Leave some comments on this one folks.

Wal-Mart and the high cost of 'cheap' - Opinion - Belleville News-Democrat
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Last month, a bevy of Richmond, Va., residents joined with preservationists in filing a legal objection to the proposed construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter within firing range of the Wilderness Battlefield. ...
October 16 at 8:44am
Ed Mantell
Ed Mantell
Three cheers for Ellen Ruppel Shell!
October 16 at 9:20am
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Orange County seeks to dimiss the lawsuit. Here is the article from the Free Lance-Star.

Fredericksburg.com - ORANGE FIGHTS BACK
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Orange asks court to dismiss lawsuit challenging decision to allow Walmart in Wilderness battlefield area say
October 14 at 1:06pm
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Letter to the Editor in Free Lance-Star claims the lawsuit ill sereves historic Orange County. Let them know what you think. http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2009/102009/10082009/497528

Fredericksburg.com - Walmart suit ill serves Orange Countians
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Fredericksburg, Virginia: The news and information source for the Fredericksburg, Virginia area, VA newspaper, The Free Lance-Star, Virginia. Yellow Pages
October 9 at 6:40am
Lawrence Wesson
Lawrence Wesson
The letter from a resident in Orange County says that residents in Orange County should settle their own affairs and in this case they welcome Wal-Mart. Well good for them. Their narcissistic small Orange view condemns something that is MUCH bigger than the consumer mind and tax base of the people of Orange County. This is why people from ... See Moreoutside Orange County are involved. The "outsiders" are really not outsiders as The Wilderness Battle Area encompasses something much larger than the affairs of Orange County. It is sad that the likes of the letter writer has any custodianship over the Battleground. Wal-Mart and many residents of Orange County have failed miserably in the guardianship.
October 9 at 7:37am
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Good Letter to the Editor in today's Free Lance-Star

Fredericksburg.com - The 'Walmart Effect': Empty downtowns
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The 'Walmart Effect': empty downtowns
October 1 at 10:34am
Lawrence Wesson
Lawrence Wesson
Empty down towns..., like the Terminator, a robotic killing machine, Wal Mart is not something that you can reason with, beg with, plead with, it will do whatever it takes to get it's way. The destruction that it leaves where it moves and settles is of no real concern and there is NO mercy shown. Making money is it's fuel, it's primary design ... See Moreprotocol program. It sees the Wilderness area as beneficial to draw customers and thus make money. If there enough customers/consumers available at say, The Grand Canyon it would build a store and consumers like cattle/locusts would come grazing on in.

I once suggested that The Alamo is an undeveloped piece of property in San Antonio. The only thing that stops IT is the notion that bad publicity would hurt IT from making money. Here at The Wilderness site, IT has vested itself to succeed and at the moment finds not enough resistance and plenty of useful political sycophants and the ever important consumer to fuel it's single minded operation to build.

Legal roadblocks, Ed Mantel's Confederates with battle flags flying, any bad public relations that can reach a larger national audience will turn the "Terminator's" red eyed destructive attention elsewhere.
October 1 at 11:27am
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Great op-ed in today's Free Lance-Star.

Fredericksburg.com - Feckless leaders inflicted major casualties
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The second Battle of the Wilderness, by John and Carla Bangs, Orange County
September 30 at 5:46am
Jim Lamason
Jim Lamason
I read this article and almost got sick.. My goodness this is a gang that is determined to just blow up this area.. They dont deserve their jobs.. Get rid of them Orange County.
September 30 at 7:15am
Chris
Chris
like you Jim I feel sick, a more hallowed unprotected ground would be hard to find, my wife lost an ancestor in 155th pa right close to this spot, he was in his Zouave uniform fighting alongside his brother and his body was never recovered and does hot have a marked grave, we always regarded him as still being there and now Walmart come along, well the tears in my eyes tell how I feel about that.
September 30 at 8:07am
Christ Liebegott
Christ Liebegott
I've said it before and I'll say it again...and again...and....FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!
September 30 at 10:07am
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart The Richmond Times-Dispatch seems to have been snowed by Walmart. Let them know what you think.

Development: Walmart & Sex | Richmond Times-Dispatch
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It’s a shame to see opponents of a Walmart in Orange County take the issue to court. They made their case before the Board of Supervisors and lost. Dragging out the fight on spurious legal grounds seems unlikely to achieve anything productive. ...
September 29 at 8:05am
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Robert Weisfeld
Robert Weisfeld
GIVE THEM HELL
September 29 at 8:14pm
Clifford Judd
Clifford Judd
We don't want Walmart anywhere pal. You have sold your soul.
October 19 at 6:50pm
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Orange County still claims the site is not on the Wilderness Battlefield. Comment on the article and let the county know what you think.

Fredericksburg.com - Orange vows to fight lawsuit against Walmart
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Attorney says Orange County will ask court to dismiss lawsuit against Walmart permit
September 29 at 8:01am
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Dimitri Vassiliou
Dimitri Vassiliou
building on that land basicly is dishonoring those boys in blue and gray who fought and died
September 29 at 9:11am
Robert Graham
Robert Graham
Where Wal Mart wants to build its store could also be considered part of the Chancellorsville Battlefield plus part of the Wilderness Battlefield Park. Since a Confederate Hospital for the Battle of Chancellorsville was located very close by, it is very possible for the wounded of both sides to have rested there.
September 29 at 5:30pm
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Check out this link to See The Civil War Preservation Trust's statement of support for the lawsuit.

Civil War Preservation Trust Supports Legal Challenge Against Wilderness Wal-Mart Proposal
www.civilwar.org
| CWPT Home>About us>News>News Releases>2009 News > Civil War Preservation Trust Supports Legal Challenge Against Wilderness Wal-Mart Proposal
September 23 at 12:12pm
Katie Boyles
Katie Boyles
go get em!!
September 23 at 3:00pm
Brian Fitts
Brian Fitts
Yeah! Let's tie this up in court for years until the citizens of Orange County get too impatient for their knock-off Chinese goods, give up, and let Wal-Mart have an alternative location!
September 23 at 3:30pm
Robert Weisfeld
Robert Weisfeld
GIVE THEM HELL!!!
September 23 at 3:31pm
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Here is the breaking story from the Free Lance-Star

Fredericksburg.com - Wal-Mart opponents file lawsuit
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Opponents of the planned Wal-Mart in Orange County file a lawsuit.
September 23 at 12:10pm
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
cool, fingers crossed that the courts will agree!
September 23 at 12:43pm
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart National Trust for Historic Preservation, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield and residents of Orange and Spotsylvania County file legal challenge to the Walmart supercenter on Wilderness Battlefield. Here is a link to the press release from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

www.civilwar.org
www.civilwar.org
September 23 at 12:09pm
Gary Adams
Gary Adams
John where are you on this?? You're one of the smartest, most talented guys I know give them hell!
September 23 at 1:03pm
Michael Willever
Michael Willever
Yeah! hell!
September 23 at 1:50pm
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Great photo!

Wal-Mart Emerges in The Wilderness
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Photograph by Bryan Hiottbryanhiott.comWet Plate Collodion PhotographerMy Landscape Photograph of The Wilderness (Whole Plate Tintype, 2009)
September 17 at 2:04pm
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Chris
Chris
Well boycott Walmart and tell all you friends to do the same and tell their friends and so on.....
September 17 at 8:07pm
Chris
Chris
But I am so darn mad at Walmart after boasting this week about putting other companies out of business and then they do this..and they sell mainly Chinese made products....we don't even see a penny stay in this country!
September 17 at 8:08pm
Stop the Wilderness Walmart

Stop the Wilderness Walmart Great column in the Washington Post today by Robert McCartney. Also take a look at the corresponding map by clicking on the link near the top left of the article.

Robert McCartney: Wal-Mart's Lamentable Victory at the Battle of the Wilderness - washingtonpost.com
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In the hierarchy of Civil War engagements, the Battle of the Wilderness doesn't quite make the A-list. Although it ranks in the top 10 by the grisly measure of total casualties, it doesn't enjoy the fame of Gettysburg or Antietam. Wilderness doesn't even get top billing in its own national park,...
September 10 at 9:58am
Gail Callicott
Gail Callicott
A sign of the times....how very sad that history will be obliterated by WalMart. Not unexpected....but very sad.
What will they do, when the 150th Reenactments start?
Will they deny the use of cannon and reenactment soldiers, on the battlefield, as "bad for business"?
September 10 at 10:19am
Katie Boyles
Katie Boyles
bring on the 40 cannons like gettysburg and sit them right next to the road and fire at will. Thats one battle ill watch :-)
September 10 at 11:36am
Chris
Chris
Sad yes, but we should do more than just make comments, how can we take action? I do not have much faith in the appeal system as it is set up to appease us and look like someone cares.
September 17 at 2:33pm