Thank you, Steve, for your leadership and continued updates to the list on this important and disturbing topic. 

I have not yet had a chance to read the report, but I wonder if you could refresh our memories about whom to contact to register our disagreement with the present course of action?  Thanks.

--Jurretta Heckscher

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On Dec 13, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Steve Corneliussen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It's conceivable that some in this forum would want to see the report that I'm distributing widely this morning concerning Virginia's latest steps towards deleting the historic Chesapeake Bay sense of place at Fort Monroe. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Report for true friends of Fort Monroe (and for others too)
> 
> Virginia’s leaders and others are further cementing America’s loss of Fort Monroe’s four-centuries-old Chesapeake Bay sense of place. Details appear below the dashed line. This sacrifice of precious public land to private special interests will continue today, Thursday, Dec. 13, in two public meetings at Fort Monroe’s Bay Breeze Center: a 12:30 Fort Monroe Authority board meeting and a 6:30 general public meeting. Virginia’s deliberate, permanent suboptimization of Fort Monroe will extract economic and other costs from this national treasure’s actual citizen owners, and from posterity for a thousand years. Today’s further downward steps come just as the country marks the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. That document evolved following political events that enterprising Black self-emancipators conceived and bravely set in motion at Fort Monroe and elsewhere. Edward L. Ayers has called those Fort Monroe events the greatest moment in American history. Virginia’s leaders call the landscape of those events a fitting place for condos.

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