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Fight against Va. battlefield Walmart lives on
TweetRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge has kept alive the battle to block a Walmart store near an endangered Civil War battlefield in Virginia.
A judge in Orange County ruled Friday that residents and a preservation group can go forward with a lawsuit to stop Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. from building a new Supercenter near the Wilderness Battlefield in Locust Grove. They argue the store threatens the historic site.
Orange County supervisors cleared the way for the store last August and asked Circuit Court Judge Daniel R. Bouton to dismiss the challenge.
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his union counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, first met in battle at the Wilderness, where 180,000 soldiers fought and 26,000 were killed or injured 146 years ago.
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Seriously-aren't there enough Walmarts?Obviously they have no class to want to screw up a Civil War battlefield.
Leave the Civil War battlefields alone. Im sure they can find land somewhere else for a Wal-Mart.
Walmart has the money, time, attorneys and political clout to out wait the individuals who are fighting to preseve the battlefield. They will just wait for the next batch of officals who might like the idea for a new store.
there you have it, folks, no one likes some chain that specializes in rural areas and small towns and seems to pop up everywhere whether they are wanted or not. well, canfield avoided them so maybe the battlefield can dodge the bullet this time around (pun intended). too bad we didn't dodge the whole civil war, though. no offense to union advocates, lincoln lovers, civil war buffs, anti-slavery zealots and other apologists, but these national vs. state sovereignty issues were surely not worth the 600,000 lives lost. maybe we need more monuments to remind us of the continuing need for statesmanship and the horrific human cost of all our wars. if our nation is not attacked, consider it a good day.
National vs. state sovereignty to continue slavery?
A house divided...