[WoodstockCat]

I support any effort to maintain historical battlefields in the U.S.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Are you ready to pony up the $$$s to fund your beliefs?

Because if you start seizing peoples' property without adequately compensating them for their loss, then - well, the whole shebang is simply meaningless.

You might as well build a time machine and set it for "Moscow, 1917".

[Big_Monkey]

"I support any effort to maintain historical battlefields in the U.S.

Ditto. Historical preservation is about as close to a liberal position as I get. We are frequently too cavalier when we abandon historical sites in favor of quick, cheap economic development.

[Ron Jeremy]

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?