Dear List Managers: If you saw fit to post the earlier notice about the 2nd Battle of Buffington Island, and if you consider my sentiments below are appropriate material for your respective mailing lists, please post accordingly. Thank you for your consideration on this. Otherwise please accept my apology for any inconvenience caused you. Regards, Sterling Forsythe ************************************************************** Subject: Buffington Island, 2nd Battle of Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 06:08:23 -0600 From: Sterling Forsythe <sforsythe@unicomp.net> To: "Amos J. Loveday" <ajloveday@aol.com> James Richmond <jimr@mail.orh.usace.army.mil> Don.Anderson@dnr.state.oh.us CC: KYWBTSVETS-L@rootsweb.com CC: "Marlitta H. Perkins" <cchase6@hotmail.com> Tony Ten-Barge <Tony.TenBarge@alliedsignal.com>, Glenn Belcher <commander@inetone.net> Sterling Forsythe wrote: > Gentlemen, > > This communication is to urge all of you to say yes to > preserving this small bit of our national heritage, and to > say no to this particular commercial enterprise. To corrupt > this place of history would constitute an irreversable > and irretrievable loss of heritage for ourselves and future > generations. This is precious ground. NO COMPROMISE! > > We are finding ourselves ever increasingly faced with similar > choices as commercial pressure for development encroaches > into remote, but often historically significant locales. Our nation > has got to turn the corner from thinking we are in the land of > limitless plenty, to appreciating and recognizing what little we have > left in the way of legitimate preservable historical sites. > > Really, are we so strapped for sand and gravel resources that this > potential desecration must happen? Not so fast. Try elsewhere > for mining sand and gravel!. Intelligent investors would have done > their homework and avoided this site for the right reasons in the > first place. Resist pressure from the investors, and the money they > have to throw at the political/legal systems. > > I guarantee you that if this had been like the small "Lost Freedman's > Cemetery" as here in Dallas, where former slaves were buried in > a place "forgotten" by development until now, there would be a > nationwide outcry. I certainly supported that preservation effort, and > now that I learn about a similar situation on Buffington Island, that > place too deserves a better fate! > > Let's envision the Buffington Island battleground site as a State > Park or as a National Park. Where is that Master Plan? > > Come On Guys....... Let's Do the Right Thing This Time! > > Sincerely, > Sterling C. Forsythe, P.E.