I read with interest the Oct. 18 Viewpoints article by Ellen Ruppel Shell ["What price, America? The high cost of 'cheap'"].
As a history major, I would be remiss, and my old professor would haunt me in this season of ghosts, if I did not respond.
It was in the early 1960s that I took a graduate-level course called "Civil War and Reconstruction" taught by Dr. Jefferson Davis Bragg, chairman of the history department at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Is this not a new volley
Wait! Wait! These folks
Have we never seen an old building torn down and replaced by a modern edifice, only to wish we could go back?
Where would this country be without its Mount Vernons and Montpeliers to relive the past?
I am quite aware that we are talking about raw ground, but once it's gone, it's gone.
Think of all those brave men and their families (both North and South) who made the ultimate sacrifice; then think of a Walmart facade.
Bill Rush
Spotsylvania