Wal-Mart Step Closer to Store Near Va Battlefield
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Updated: 10:50 AM Jun 26, 2009
Wal-Mart Step Closer to Store Near Va Battlefield
ORANGE, Va. (AP)
Wal-Mart has won the backing of Orange County planners for a Supercenter near the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia.
Posted: 6:20 AM Jun 26, 2009
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Wal-Mart has won the backing of Orange County planners for a Supercenter near the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia.

The 5-4 vote Thursday sends the proposal to the Board of Supervisors. That board is believed to be leaning toward approval of the 138,000-square-foot store within a cannon shot of the Civil War battlefield.

Supervisors will conduct a public hearing before taking a vote on the proposal. It has been criticized by some of the nation's top historians.

They have said the store is an affront to 29,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who were killed or injured 145 years ago at the Wilderness.

Wal-Mart has said its studies have concluded the store will not actually be on the site of any bloody combat.

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Posted by: KALK Location: North Central Ohio on Aug 25, 2009 at 07:15 PM

I am applaud! I hope the area people takes charge and does everything it can to stop this. Time to start boycotting Wal-Mart. They got after Bill Gates for the monopoly on software... time to boycott Wal-Mart on their monopoly! I have been shopping other places just to avoid Wal-Mart.
Posted by: VA Location: Elkton, VA on Jun 26, 2009 at 10:05 AM

This is just ridiculous! You mean to tell me they can't find somewhere else to build this Wal-Mart?! This is hollowed ground. Just as Gettysburg and other battlefields are as well. I can't believe they just want to build over our heritage and history!
Posted by: AC Location: Harrisonburg on Jun 26, 2009 at 09:33 AM

Hasn't Walmart blemished enough of our landscape without encroaching on our historical sites as well? Heaven forbid something in this country go un-cheapened by the so-called "progress" of our generation. They can keep their low prices away from our priceless heritage.