Not all area land is 'hallowed'

Date published: 7/1/2003

I have read another letter from a liberal, tree-hugging, "come-here" person who wants to save every acre in Spotsylvania County for the Civil War battlefields and to stop growth. Come-heres move in and want to close the door to the rest of us. That is very un-American and unpatriotic.

We the people need a place to live just like the come-heres. And some of us working stiffs can afford only a mobile home or an apartment. The only way to stop growth is to add birth control to the drinking water, so get over it.

These come-heres want to save every acre of the Civil War battlefields because it is "sacred and hallowed ground." My question to them is, What is the definition of "sacred and hallowed ground" in these United States? Why is an acre of ground in Chancellorsville more sacred and hallowed than an acre in Charleston, W.Va., or Detroit?

To me, it is all sacred and hallowed ground because we the people have fought for it and a lot of us have died in the process of protecting these United States. Just because some of our ancestors died "on it," does that make it any more sacred and hallowed than if some of our ancestors died "for it"? To me, all of these United States are sacred and hallowed ground, so I guess if we stop growth in the Chancellorsville area, we need to stop growth in all of the nation.

I had six ancestors in the War for Independence and several on both sides in the Civil War. Don't get me wrong, some acres truly need to be saved, but not every acre. The Civil War is over with, get over it. We the people won, and we the people should not let the past stop progress for the future.

If growth is stopped in Chancellorsville, then a parking garage should not be built on "sacred and hallowed ground" in Fredericksburg.

Michael C. Boggs

Spotsylvania

Date published: 7/1/2003