and there really are some sites that should be preserved, but it has gotten out of hand. They’ve now just linked up with the greenies and now use the “it’s a part of the ecosystem” thinking that the greenies use to suck up an ever-growing circumference around every park and national forest. And, you’re right, practically every square foot between the Potomac and the James was a battleground in the Revolution, War or 1812, or Civil War, some places in all three.

The land I own in VA is about to be mined. We’ve spent the past 21 years dealing with permitting, archeological studies, environmental impact studies, the Chesapeake Bay preservationists, someone who thought our little woods might be habitat for some endangered bird, VDOT, and God knows who else.

Before my Dad passed away, he’d go out looking for remains of Civil War bullets and arrowheads, and he’d chuck any he found to keep the loons from deciding our land was too archeologically important for mining. He also kept an eye out for that bird, and had he found one, he’d have shot it. Feh. I’m interested in tomorrow’s titanium, not yesterday’s lead and rocks.

The whole flippin’ state is a battleground and a graveyard. The ancestor worship, cult of the dead thing has been over the top since Appomattox, IMO.

I love history, and I’m happy many sites are preserved — Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, representative battlefields, stately homes. But you can’t keep everything frozen in time.