Walmart destroying American history: Building supercenter at Civil War battlefield

[Alexis]

Plz delete.

[Bardo]

The proposed Walmart is located near the site of the Battle of the Wilderness, which is viewed by historians as a critical turning point in the war. An estimated 185,000 Union and Confederate troops fought over three days in 1864, and 30,000 were killed, injured or went missing. The war ended 11 months later..


.....Hundreds of historians, including Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson, filmmaker Ken Burns and actor Robert Duvall have appealed to Wal-Mart to walk away and find another place to build in the county of less than 35,000 people.


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"There is no indication that any significant historical event occurred on this land," Sharon E. Pandak wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "No state or federal law precludes development of the site."


Will it really take federal law to stop walmart?

And it's the socialists who are devoid of any moral high ground... :rolleyes:

[L.A.P.]

I watched a special on Walmart on CNBC and seemed that Sam Walton has a cult of personality the same way deceased dictators have and when the current CEO was discussing him being moved by the company to a foreign country and tried to complain about it to the CEO at that time he replied "It's not up to you, the company will guide you". So Anarcho-Capitalists don't think that once the state is abolished it won't be turned into a system similar to a dictatorship? SHIT! I got off topic. I thought there was a law that forbids you from building over a historical site.

[southernmissfan]

Technically they're building it right next to the battlefield site rather than on top of it. Apparently the areas surrounding a historical monument aren't protected. And like we all know when people go to visit a historical battlefield they also want to buy cheap junk at the Walmart next door. :rolleyes:

It's the American way.

[9]

Tbh, who cares?

[Robocommie]

Tbh, who cares?

Well, obviously, enough people for there to be a news story about the efforts to stop it.

[9]

Originally Posted by article in the OP
"As we approach the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, this case is a watershed that will demonstrate whether we as a society are really interested in protecting our national heritage," he said.


Originally Posted by 9 http://www.revleft.com/vb/revleft/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1998923#post1998923)
Tbh, who cares?Well, obviously, enough people for there to be a news story about the efforts to stop it.
Right. I guess I just don't really see what "protecting our national heritage" has to do with "revolutionary left" politics.

[9]

I don't really think a piece of ground near where a battle was fought qualifies as "history", tbh. I mean, I'm not saying Walmart should or shouldn't be able to build there; I really don't have an opinion on the matter one way or the other. My point is that I don't see what the question has to do with communist politics.

[bailey_187]

You don't see how history is important? Especially when a mega-corporation is trying to destroy it? Really? l:confused:

So if a "mom and pop" shop was trying to build in the same place as Walmart it would be better? :confused:

[Black Sheep]

History is important, but not important as human needs!
For example, where i used to live there was no proper hospital.
The construction of it was delayed for something close to a decade, due to the national archaeological committee or sth, who found ancient settlement ruins or sth on the land where it would be built.

Kinda off topic, but anyway.

[S.Artesian]

History is important, but not important as human needs!
For example, where i used to live there was no proper hospital.
The construction of it was delayed for something close to a decade, due to the national archaeological committee or sth, who found ancient settlement ruins or sth on the land where it would be built.

Kinda off topic, but anyway.


Well that's the problem. If that hospital had been a Wal-Mart, able to provide certain..erh.... incentives to certain important people in government, instead of just another money-losing, bleeding heart, do-gooder exercise in providing for the unworthy, you can bet there would have been a parking lot where that ancient settlement once was.