Posted on 12/27/2008 2:47:09 PM PST by Bill Dupray
One of the greatest privileges of living in Virginia, especially for history buffs, is that we are neck-deep in Civil War country. I live within 50 miles of some of the most significant battles, and have walked the battlefields of Bull Run (I and II), Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and many others. The one thing that has remained nearly unblemished, especially in the face of the building boom in Northern Virginia over the past 15 years, has been the fields and vistas of the hallowed ground where tens of thousands of brave men fought and died. If you want to see the ridge where General Barnard Bee gave General Thomas Jackson his nickname of "Stonewall," during the Battle of Bull Run, you can see it and stand on it today.
So now Wal-Mart wants to build a new store across the street from The Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County Virginia. And they have a fight on their hands.
More . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
Great link.
Hey wallmart,thats agood way to piss off a bunch of supporters.
WalMart Supercenters are like magnets. You let that one get built and the whole area will be built up around it in a couple of years.
“Look!” he shouted, “there is the preservation groups standing like a stone wall! Rally behind them..
repel the dreaded Wallmart invaders...
where do I sign up?
Google “anti-walmart articles’ and you’ll find a lot of information to help you fight against them building there. Problem is, if the land’s available and the seller wants the money . . . it’s a done deal.
Good Luck.
Some one could always pay the seller more money than Wal-Mart is willing to,
But I suspect they are angling for a bailout.
Maybe property is cheap there because nobody else wants to be first to build a store full of cheap chinese made crap on this ground.
“WalMart Supercenters are like magnets. You let that one get built and the whole area will be built up around it in a couple of years.”
Yes, it’s all that damn freedom and prosperity that the Confederacy was fighting for that causes that development to occur.
I don’t think Lee or Jackson would object - in fact, they’d probably have an affinity with Wal-Mart - with outside folks telling independent-minded people what they should do with their land and all.
Granted, I’m all for CW preservation, but I’m for private property even more.
Plus his feet probably hurt all the time.
Walmart is the model for efficient delivery of product. But there is a reason they can beat everyone else’s price and efficiency only accounts for part of it.
Quality is the biggest piece they cut now.
Only 14 replies on a W-M thread? A lot of people must still be hung over from Christmas dinner.
I know where they want to build exactly and they are nuts to try this...What are they thinking?
“Yes, it’s all that damn freedom and prosperity that the Confederacy was fighting for that causes that development to occur.”
yeah its terrible when people in a community speak out about something thats happening in their community.
We could fix that pretty easily, throw out a few inflamatory statements. Talk about the cheap products, poor pay, future unionization, poor working conditions, forced overtime or one of the other favorite topics in these threads.
If the community wishes to preserve the land, they should go buy it. (Not under duress.)
Problem solved.
I’m personally waiting for the new Wal Mart to be built on all that wasted land at Arlington. Imagine all the Chinese crap that could be sold instead of letting that land go to waste with a bunch of dead people.
“Quality” and “Wal Mart” don’t belong in the same sentence.
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