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Article: EDITORIAL: What do you think?: National park status, or state custody, makes sense at Fort Monroe.(Editorial)
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- Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
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- August 2, 2006
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Aug. 2--Three public entities could be custodians of all or part of Fort Monroe: the federal government, the state and the city of Hampton. As the city revs up planning for reuse of the base after the Army leaves in 2011, a question has begun to circulate: Is the first of these entities - in the body of the National Park Service - the one that makes the most sense?
When the Editorial Board posed the question last week - should Fort Monroe become a national park? - we heard from 80 readers, from as nearby as Hampton and as far away as Minnesota.
The great majority - 80 percent - favor national park status; the rest either didn't answer the question or ...