Help Save Virginia's Wilderness Battlefield from Wal-Mart

The Civil War's Wilderness Battlefield is under siege...again! But, this time it does not involve soldiers and artillery. Wal-Mart and JDC Ventures LLC have proposed to commercially develop 240,000 square feet on critically important land at the historic Wilderness Battlefield and just across the road from the National Park Service's center of interpreting the Battle of the Wilderness.

NPCA and its partners have determined that Wal-Mart's project would irrevocably harm the battlefield, undermine the visitor's experience of the National Military Park, and open the door for more incompatible, large-scale development at the gateway to the national park.


Save the Battlefield from Wal-Mart

Subject:

Relocation of Orange County, VA, Wal-Mart Supercenter


Dear [ Decision Maker ],

I am writing you to ask that you please protect our nation's Civil War heritage for the benefit of future generations. 

Like Virginia's Governor Tim Kaine and many thousands of Americans, I am seriously concerned that the proposed Wal-Mart development in Orange County, Virginia, would permanently harm historic Wilderness Battlefield and the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park. 

I am writing to ask you to relocate Wal-Mart's proposed Supercenter to another site in Orange County, but away from the battlefield and the national park.  Ultimately, this is your decision. 

Wal-mart is getting to big for it over sized britches. It is like they have senators in their pockets feeding them when they need something approved. Now they want to build near an Historical Battlefield, nuts plain nuts.  DO NOT DO IT, I could not vote in any re-election of any congress person who did not support the Virginia Wilderness Battlefield against Wal-mart.... There has to be another location away from the Battlefield, where the truck traffic will not matter but the battlefield...GEEZ
 And that you can take to the bank, and thats all I have to say on the subject

Thank you for considering my comments and helping to preserve our nation's unique and irreplaceable heritage.