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All are National Military Parks, as Ls the Manassas battlefield. Where does this desecration stop?
Is Arlington Cemetery also for sale — waiting only for the right offer to come along? It too is prime real estate — condominiums on the site of the I wo Jima Memorial would offer a breathtaking view of federal Washington — and no doubt command a breathtaking price tag. And, taking the argument of the Prince William supervisors, it too is just “a place for dead people.”
Few Americans, we feel, would support such a proposal. But the Manassas William Center proposal differs from the Arlington Cemetery example only by degree.
The question becomes, in essence, where do we find our heritage?
Do we spend a few quiet moments in the tall grass and gentle breezes of the once-bloody fields around Bull Run, reflecting on the courage and sacrifice of the soldiers who fought there — who paid with their lives to build our nation?
Or do we flock like lemmings to the air-conditioned, Muzak-filled shopping malls which spring like noxious weeds from cracks in today’s ever-expanding ribbons of asphalt, lining the pockets of developers with the green of the almighty dollar as they obliterate the God-given green of trees and fields?
Or, more bluntly: Which path leads us to “a place for dead people?”
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