Wal-Mart's Attack on Civil War Battlefield in Northern Virginia
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The Wilderness Battlefield
Radio Show about the Wilderness Battlefield!
Charlottesville-Right Now: Rick Britton
Local author and historian, Rick Britton , joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the proposed Wal-Mart near the Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County and give the latest edition of his Civil War Quiz.
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September 25th, 2009 | Category: Authors, Charlottesville Podcasts, Charlottesville--Right Now, History, Interviews, New audio, News, Outside Charlottesville, Radio Shows, Rick
The Wilderness Battlefield
Radio Show about the Wilderness Battlefield!
Charlottesville-Right Now: Rick Britton
Local author and historian, Rick Britton , joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the proposed Wal-Mart near the Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County and give the latest edition of his Civil War Quiz.
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September 25th, 2009 | Category: Authors, Charlottesville Podcasts, Charlottesville--Right Now, History, Interviews, New audio, News, Outside Charlottesville, Radio Shows, Rick
Our Sons Died for foreign profiteers
The global economy marches on. National pride is its only opposition. Shame on Walmart for taking the wrong side again.
David and Goliath
I'm with A.E Lee of TX
Walmart in the Wilderness Battlefield Park
Dear Walmart, Cease and desist with all speed. No, I don't live there, no I don't have to drive to one of your facilities and no, I like the idea that you want to build in a national park area. Here's what though, I vote and I buy. I will join Robert (post above me) and make a concerted effort to get out of the business of ever buying from Walmart again and I will oppose every building here in my area of the world. I will voice my opinion to friends and family, co-workers and my church. In other words, I will soapbox or stump, probably stump is the more appropriate term for this, at every chance I get and Lord, how I love to talk. Thank you for your time, A.E. Lee, TX
A Orange County Resident
The wal-mart could not come soon enough!
Signed someone who actually lives in Orange County,
Amy Sheffield
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We are Watching Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart...We ARE Watching!
Once you build your store - The Wilderness Battlefield can never be restored. The only power I will then have is...Once you build your store I will Never shop at Never enter any Wal-Mart ever again.
Kindly reconsider!
Respectfully Yours
Robert F Lustrea
Thank You
Yeah !!Not much of a walk!!
tat star....
People in America need to realize jus what got America in this shape…”cheap” yes so-call cheap items from a foreign land.
quote*Wal-Mart firmly believes in local procurement. We recognize that by purchasing quality products, we can generate more job opportunities, support local manufacturing and boost economic development. Over 95% of the merchandise in our stores in China is sourced locally. We have established partnerships with nearly 20,000 suppliers in China. *end quote!
Now! if there be 182 country’s making items for the world to buy and they have only 5% of the pie in China…duh! This company makes the nice people of China support their currency(yuan) by keeping it in their country working for the people there…. but with the “yuan” going up in value and the US dollar going down…all the foreign items that the American consumer buys thinking it is cheap has went up in price.
People…its all about the currency and to keep a currency strong you got to keep it floating around the country you live in so it can work for you. For the past 12 years all them US dollars are being shipped overseas to a foreign bank and with the American worker not making anything for the foreigner to buy the “we the people” have to turn to the “second” largest employer in America(Uncle Sam) to sell “we the people” debt in order to get all them dollars back!
50 years ago a foreigner would had given their left nut for a US dollar or a Hershey’s chocolate bar and today the same foreigner has got Uncle Sam and the American consumer by both all the while Hershey is moving the chocolate factory to Mexico. Wake up! America and think “MADE IN AMERICA.”
quote*"Considering that there are over 30,000 ships at sea this morning," writes James Carlton, director of the Williams College-Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program, in an e-mail, "the total number of organisms and species in this global 'bioflow' on the morning your readers read your piece could be staggering - billions of individuals, and thousands of species."
Indeed, scientists have long considered ballast water the primary way invasive aquatic organisms are introduced. From the zebra mussel's arrival in the Great Lakes, to an American jellyfish severely disrupting Black Sea fisheries, the potential costs of accidental introduction of a species to new homes can be tremendous. Aquatic invasives cost the US $9 billion yearly, according to estimates by David Pimentel, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Zebra and quagga mussels (a cousin to the zebra) alone cost the $1 billion annually.*end quote!
tat is $9 billion a year in hidden taxes to all Americans...
cheap ain't chic and it cost America............jobs!
Wilderness Battlefield and Wal Mart
Having an ancestor who was mortally wounded in this battle while serving with the 11th PA Infantry, I have a very special connection with this place. For Wal Mart not to consider what happened here in May of 1864 is at the very least SHAMEFUL and at the most CRIMINAL. One of the world's largest corporations certainly can find a more suitable location to build. The development in the area already is too excessive with a Sheetz basically sitting next to Grant's headquarters and up the road a small plaza with several stores and shops. We have to remember these men who fought and died here for what they believed in. Allowing such a project to go forward is like spitting on the graves of every one of these men who died here. I have contacted Wal-Mart with my concerns, but it seems now that they are going forward with this just to prove they can. What a sad state of affairs when the quest for profits outway you sense of duty and patriotism. Shame, shame on Wal-Mart!!!!!!!!
