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  • August 25, 2009 at 3:51 pm #1699 Reply
    Phidippides
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    A Walmart is going to be built next to Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia.  Officials OK Walmart near Va. battlefieldSome opposition has spoken up:

    Opponents included 253 historians such as David McCullough and James M. McPherson, filmmaker Ken Burns, actor Robert Duvall, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, and congressmen from Vermont and Texas, states that lost many men at the Wilderness.

    August 25, 2009 at 9:54 pm #16319 Reply
    cadremum
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    Its hard to imagine Virginians just taking this in stride. I read 400 demonstrators against, not what I would expect. Its a sacrilege. Sam can't you do better than this?

    August 25, 2009 at 11:12 pm #16320 Reply
    Hunleyfan
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    well over half of the battle field of franklin is a shoping mall and a pizza hut so and that was one of the worst battle of the war

    August 26, 2009 at 10:36 am #16321 Reply
    scout1067
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    It is not just Civil War sites that are disappearing.  The entire Battle of Palo Alto, battlefield from the Mexican American War is underneath a Wal-Mart parking lot in Brownsville, TX  the only reason the Resaca de la Palma battlefield is not gone is it is literally commercially worthless wasteland.

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