Starting in September 2005, before Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park was formed, CFMNP
Communications Vice President Steve Corneliussen commented extensively in op-ed
essays about what he called the attempt simply to "donate" Fort Monroe for one city's economic gain
instead of treating that "national treasure" as a long-term strategic asset for Tidewater, for Virginia and for
the nation:
Newport News
Daily Press
Who Should Plan the Future of
Fort
Monroe
?
September 24, 2005
Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot
Please, Let's Not Make It McFort Monroe
December 2, 2005
Richmond
Times-Dispatch
Will Assembly Sacrifice a Bayfront Treasure -- for
Hampton
's Gain?
February
19, 2006 (link outside of CFMNP.org)
Newport News
Daily Press
Why Give
Monroe
to
Hampton
?
February 19, 2006 (link outside of CFMNP.org)
Washington
Post
Let the Public Have a Say in this Fort's Fate
April 23,
2006 (link outside of CFMNP.org)
(Note: The Post's headline writer misconstrued this essay slightly, for as the op-ed actually says,
the problem is not that the public has no say, but that control over the response to public views rests solely with
one city.)