In the online Virginia history (but not VA-HIST) discussion that I announced 
on Friday (please see the truncated rerun below the dashed line), comment 4 
is my report on what President Obama actually did and did not say concerning 
Fort Monroe in his Hampton University speech on Sunday. (Partial summary: He 
alluded to it as "the Union garrison" and "the fort," but never said the two 
words -- "Fort Monroe" -- that would have changed our struggle to save that 
national treasure from mediocritization or worse.) If Fort Monroe is indeed 
a prospective World Heritage Site, that online discussion is about why. I'll 
bet that VA-HIST reaches people who, if they can make the time, would want 
to join it. Thanks.
Steve Corneliussen
Poquoson, Virginia
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Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:25 AM
I hope that in this Virginia History forum I may invite people to join a 
discussion of Virginia history in an online forum called Virginia Tomorrow. 
The president speaks Sunday at Hampton University. The posting at Bob 
Holsworth's Virginia Tomorrow forum (http://virginiatomorrow.com/) is 
headlined "Obama’s Hampton Speech Could Promote Constructive Revisionism on 
Slavery and the Civil War: Historic Venue Closely Linked to Endangered Civil 
War Treasure, Fort Monroe." [snip] 

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