One use of federal tax money I support is the establishment and maintenance of historical parks. Such as the closing of Fortress Monroe (the green area inside the blue moat above at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay) which the Army has decided to abandon.
Not because I used to spend time there in 1970-71 when I was an Army recruiter and recruiting headquarters was then at Monroe. Nope.
But because, well, among its other historical aspects, the fort that was built when USA was a new republic has the cell where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was imprisoned after the Civil War.
It was also horror writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe’s home when he was an Army artillery sergeant in the early 1800s. There’s just too much history there to let some developer turn it into beachfront condos.
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