They're back! The carpetbaggers (National Trust, Hollywood elites, distinguished gentlemen from Vermont and Texas) are back meddling in Orange County business.
The May 20 article ["Wilderness on Trust's "] restated opponents' opinion that Walmart endangers the Wilderness battlefield.
Opponents are wrong.
Ignore for an instant that Orange County made a great deal with Walmart. The store is needed in Orange, the residents voted for it, and the Orange Planning Commission and the supervisors approved the plan.
I volunteer thousands of hours a year
The site is not on land used by the war.
But what is shocking about the National Trust's position is that Walmart offered
I've often searched for a place to post notices of events in this area. The display offer would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising to the same people suing Orange County and wasting our money for a lost cause.
Walmart proposed to make the display cases available to the National Trust, Friends of the Wilderness, the National Park Service, and others.
If these opponents have so much time and money, why don't they help us and the Park Service clean up the snow-damaged trees on Hill Ewell Drive that litter the battlefield and are a hazard to visitors?
In all my volunteer time, I have not seen any of them doing the real work to maintain the Wilderness battlefield.
Yes, the Wilderness is endangered, not from Walmart but from the elitist "not in my backyard" people in these organizations who lack common sense.
Bob Johnson
Orange