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    The Wilderness Alert !!!!

    Just got my current copy of Civil War News and on the front page !!! Wal-mart submits plans to build on 55 acre plot in The Wilderness.

    The request is to build a super Wal-mart plaza in a plot of land directly across from the Fredericksburg / Spotsylvania National Military Park (The Wilderness). The CWPT has already fired a salvo across Wal-mart's bow and I suggest we all do the same. I am writing them a letter stating I will no longer be a patron of their stores and will urge others to do the same.

    Greg Cocco
    Pa. Light Artillery Battery G
    Last edited by GreyRider; 07-29-2008, 10:30 AM.
    [B]Greg Cocco
    1st Pa Light Artillery Battery G[/B]
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  • #2
    Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

    A related thread:

    Pressure Building in the Wilderness

    Eric
    Eric J. Mink
    Co. A, 4th Va Inf
    Stonewall Brigade

    Help Preserve the Slaughter Pen Farm - Fredericksburg, Va.

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    • #3
      Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

      Wally-world is already overstepping its bounds with the way it allegedly treats its employees... now they want to do the same with ground many heroic Americans fought and died over.

      This is sad, sick...

      Has CWPT made any further efforts on this matter?

      -Johnny Lloyd
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      • #4
        Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

        Originally posted by GreyRider View Post
        I am writing them a letter stating I will no longer be a patron of their stores and will urge others to do the same.
        I'll add this to the 51,462,247,426 reasons I don't shop there.
        John Wickett
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        • #5
          Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

          Make sure you check Erics other thread.
          Authentic Campaigner
          http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17350


          Maybe we need to look outside of Walmart. (i know...)
          Its a development company from Herndon, maybe they need a letter.
          Maybe Orange County, who is for this needs a wake up call.

          This all flys in the face of Orange shooting down the widening of 20.

          Walmart is going to build, its up to the BOS and Planning Comms to push against this things. Thats where we come in.

          D.a. Gruber
          Drew

          "God knows, as many posts as go up on this site everyday, there's plenty of folks who know how to type. Put those keyboards to work on a real issue that's tied to the history that we love and obsess over so much." F.B.

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          • #6
            Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

            The article basically states that they have just started the fight. Letters went to county officials and the CEO of Wal-Mart stating that they are going to have a fight on their hands. They are asking for everyone's help to defeat this Goliath. I hate Wal-Mart an will never buy from them.
            [B]Greg Cocco
            1st Pa Light Artillery Battery G[/B]

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            • #7
              Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

              Eric - I thought I remembered seeing a Walmart near Salem Church in that awful glut on Hwy 3? Sounds like a classic case of "build it and they will come." Somehow most of the folks who live out that way don't seem like Wal Martians to me...but even they must hate having to fight their way east on Hwy 3 toward Fredericksburg.

              Gang this is another good chance to join the fight by joining CWPT and Friends of the Wilderness Battlefield. FOWB is an outstanding example of concerned citizens at the grass roots level going above and beyond the call, whether it be battlefield preservation, historical property renovation at Ellwood, living history appreciation (they get it!) or cleanup. Before last years NPS event I was driving along Hwy 20 and met one of the FOWB folks picking up trash along the side of the roadway. He told me he had the "duty" that day. My kind of folks. Let's help them out.

              As for Walmart, this is kind of like home security - if you make it just a little too painful from a PR standpoint, they will pick somewhere else down the block. I know the head of PR for WMT (served together in the Navy) and went to high school with his bride - will send a letter to them direct.
              Last edited by DougCooper; 07-29-2008, 12:55 PM.
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              • #8
                Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

                The problem is not Wal-Mart, if you stop them another big retailer will just fill the void.. The problem is the zoning board and the owners of the land, those are the people that must be dealt with..
                thanks

                Will Coffey



                Why did not the Southern States wait and see whether A. Lincoln would interfere with slavery before they seceded." A federal Soldier's words left in a court clerk's office in Bennetsville, SC

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                • #9
                  Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

                  The problem is not Wal-Mart, if you stop them another big retailer will just fill the void.. The problem is the zoning board and the owners of the land, those are the people that must be dealt with... -Will Coffey

                  Wal-Mart ain't helping the problem in this case, either. There must be a fine balance between private enterprise and preserving our American heritage.

                  Sam Walton is rolling in his grave somewhere right now...

                  -Johnny Lloyd
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                  Without research standards, there can be no authenticity.
                  Without the attempt at authenticity, all is just a fantasy.
                  Fantasy is not history nor heritage, because it never really existed." -Me

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                  • #10
                    Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

                    Is there a online petition? If you get me an address I'll put it on the boards here in KY and I'm sure the reenacting family would be on board.
                    Thanks,
                    Todd Osborne
                    Todd Henry Osborne
                    5th Ky Infantry CSA

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                    • #11
                      Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

                      Heres the listing for the Orange County phone numbers.

                      District 1 R.Mark Johnson, Chairman 832-2150
                      District 2 Thomas Graves 854-5903
                      District 3 Sonny Dodson 672-3048
                      District 4 Teri Pace 854-5194
                      District 5 Rich Wallace, Vice Chairman 972-1811

                      Thats 540-XXX-XXXX

                      D.a. Gruber
                      Drew

                      "God knows, as many posts as go up on this site everyday, there's plenty of folks who know how to type. Put those keyboards to work on a real issue that's tied to the history that we love and obsess over so much." F.B.

                      "...mow hay, cut wood, prepare great food, drink schwitzel, knit, sew, spin wool, rock out to a good pinch of snuff and somehow still find time to go fly a kite." N.B.

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                      • #12
                        Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

                        Everyone needs to pay attention. This is happening all over the country.

                        Bully for the A.C. for taking the fight to where it needs to be taken!
                        Mike Hinton
                        12th TX, Co. A

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                        • #13
                          Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

                          Here is the front page of Civil War News. The entire article is not up yet.

                          Civil War News
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                          [B]Greg Cocco
                          1st Pa Light Artillery Battery G[/B]

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                          • #14
                            Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

                            THIS IS A BUNCH OF BULL! I'm definantly not supportin Wal-fart anymore! Who would I call to give my 2 cents about the whole thing? PM me if you have the info thanks!
                            Kyle (Cuffie) Pretzl
                            The Tater Mess

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                            • #15
                              Re: The Wilderness Alert !!!!

                              Originally posted by Busterbuttonboy View Post
                              Heres the listing for the Orange County phone numbers.

                              District 1 R.Mark Johnson, Chairman 832-2150
                              District 2 Thomas Graves 854-5903
                              District 3 Sonny Dodson 672-3048
                              District 4 Teri Pace 854-5194
                              District 5 Rich Wallace, Vice Chairman 972-1811

                              Thats 540-XXX-XXXX

                              D.a. Gruber
                              Well done Drew - folks this is the kind of grass roots stuff that gets things done.
                              Soli Deo Gloria
                              Doug Cooper

                              "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner

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