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Actor (Robert) Duvall enters battle to save Va. battlefield
www.breitbart.com ^ | May 4, 2009 | STEVE SZKOTAK

Posted on 05/04/2009 11:12:18 AM PDT by Publius804

Actor Duvall enters battle to save Va. battlefield

By STEVE SZKOTAK

LOCUST GROVE, Va. (AP) - Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall has fired a verbal salvo against plans to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Virginia Civil War battlefield where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee first fought the Union's Ulysses S. Grant.

Duvall, who is a descendant of Lee, said he will help preservationists in "chasing out" the retailer from a site near the Wilderness Battlefield.

At a news conference on Monday, Duvall said he has no grudge against Wal-Mart but believes in capitalism coupled with sensitivity.

Duvall was joined by Congressmen Peter Welch of Vermont and Ted Poe of Texas, representing states that lost many lives at the Wilderness battle 145 years ago.

The Wal-Mart proposal must first be approved by Orange County supervisors.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: battlefields; civilwar; dixie; godsgravesglyphs; hollywood; robertduvall; robertelee; va2009; virginia; virginiahistory; walmart
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To: Publius804

What does Beijing have to say about this?


21 posted on 05/04/2009 11:29:40 AM PDT by central_va (www.15thVirginia.org Co. C, Patrick Henry Rifles)
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To: Publius804

22 posted on 05/04/2009 11:30:09 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: WoodstockCat
I support any effort to maintain historical battlefields in the U.S.

I don't. I think that if people want to preserve this site they should buy the land and preserve it. And besides, it's not like they are building the memorial "on" the battlefield. It is "near" the battlefield. Just how far away from a battlefield must one be in order to engage in free enterprise, in your opinion?

Also, just how big of a battle must it have been for you to impose your "no free enterprise" zone? Would your preserve every site where a couple of cavalry scouts met and fired off a few shots? If not, what is the cutoff?

23 posted on 05/04/2009 11:30:38 AM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: Publius804

He is a great actor and a good samaritan.
I’m behind him all the way.


24 posted on 05/04/2009 11:32:45 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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To: Publius804
against plans to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter near

a Virginia Civil War battlefield where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee first fought the Union's Ulysses S. Grant.

Obviously they're not

building it on the battle field

25 posted on 05/04/2009 11:34:08 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: WoodstockCat
I’m simply talking about areas that have long been established to be part of the historical record of battle and that do not currently belong to someone else.

You mean, there is land just sitting around that doesn't belong to anybody? Who knew?

Also, according to Wikipedia, The Wilderness was fought over an area covering 70 square miles. Add in your definition of "near" a battlefield, and you are perhaps talking about 100 square miles of land that you want to be off limits.

26 posted on 05/04/2009 11:34:25 AM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: Publius804

If Judge Ted Poe is agin it, I’m agin it.


27 posted on 05/04/2009 11:34:46 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: WoodstockCat
Well if you deny them the use of their land, then you've taken it.

Either "put up" the $$$s to purchase their land [at fair market value], or [no offense intended] "shut up".

28 posted on 05/04/2009 11:35:24 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: Publius804
The trouble with Virginia is that you can't swing a dead cat around your head, without it passing over some kind of battlefield. Please note that no animals were harmed in anyway while writing this post......and that I never have swung a dead cat over my own head or the head of anyone else.
29 posted on 05/04/2009 11:35:44 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: cubreporter

So just how close to a battlefield is too close for people to do what they want without your approval? 1 mile? 20 miles? 50 miles?


30 posted on 05/04/2009 11:35:49 AM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: EagleUSA

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” ..............Certainly not the during the battle of the wilderness, when troops on both sides were burned to death. Too many burnt spirits lurk in the woods of the wilderness.


31 posted on 05/04/2009 11:36:34 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (tagline under renovation, will return soon.)
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To: Publius804
Several hundred homeowners in my neck of the woods fought to keep OUT a 24 hour Walmart Super-center. It took nearly 3 years but we won!

Good for Duval. They don't need a Walmart on historical grounds. If you look at any moderately sized community there is usually a Walmart within a 5 mile radius.

Walmart always finds somewhere else to build. They have serious money.

32 posted on 05/04/2009 11:37:44 AM PDT by poobear
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To: Publius804
Is there a spot in VA where there wasn't a Civil War battle?

Let the locals vote to see if they would rather have jobs and lower prices or the field.

33 posted on 05/04/2009 11:37:48 AM PDT by Poison Pill (Given enough time, everything becomes illegal.)
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To: The_Victor
"Sounds like the proposed retail site is not actually on the battlefield."

Then I'm sure you also support Eddie Rendell's Gettysburg casinos, too...

34 posted on 05/04/2009 11:38:01 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: poobear
Several hundred homeowners in my neck of the woods fought to keep OUT a 24 hour Walmart Super-center. It took nearly 3 years but we won!

Did you consider buying the land for yourselves and then doing as you pleased with it, or did you just bully the government to restrict someone else's property rights?

35 posted on 05/04/2009 11:40:04 AM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: poobear
Good for Duval. They don't need a Walmart on historical grounds. If you look at any moderately sized community there is usually a Walmart within a 5 mile radius.

In Virginia, it's hard to travel 5 miles in any direction and not be on 'historical' ground.

36 posted on 05/04/2009 11:41:06 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: Joe 6-pack
Then I'm sure you also support Eddie Rendell's Gettysburg casinos, too...

Don't know the first thing about them. Private property should be used as owner desirs. If we think that a battlefield needs to be preserved then we should buy the land and set it aside, not pressure the owner to use the land as we desire.

37 posted on 05/04/2009 11:42:38 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Big_Monkey
Agreed - we don't have Constitutional Law in this country anymore - we have the rule of the mob.

Of course, getting back to the question at hand, ol' Honest Abe was one of the two greatest enemies of the US Constitution who ever walked the face of the earth [the other being John Marshall himself].

38 posted on 05/04/2009 11:44:01 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: Joe 6-pack

I suppose he’d also be in favor of turning Ground Zero in Manhattan into a strip club if the locals want it.


39 posted on 05/04/2009 11:44:31 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: The_Victor

‘Duvall, who is a descendant of Lee, said he will help preservationists in “chasing out” the retailer from a site near the Wilderness Battlefield.
Sounds like the proposed retail site is not actually on the battlefield. ‘

Its not on the battlefield. I appreciate concerns about preserving the CW battlefields, having visited almost all of them in the ‘eastern theater’ including the Wilderness/Fredreicksburg/Chancellorsville location...but that Wal Mart means JOBS in a area that sorely needs them.

And I’ll add Robert E Lee would be embarrassed by the shear number of memorials to himself that currently exist in Virginia and at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.

He would appreciate every one in honor of his troops.

Bottom line for me is Duvall would better serve the preservation by contributing and raising funds for those battlefields already preserved, and hurting for operating costs in today’s economy than stopping GROWTH of the local economy.

JMHO.


40 posted on 05/04/2009 11:44:59 AM PDT by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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