I'm sorry but if this monument is greater than a sign on the roadside or something that would take land from the owner, I disagree. The farmer or owner of that land should not be coerced into selling it to provide room for a monument. I could only imagine my grief compounded had such a tragedy occured on my land, only to see my nation turn on me and force me to sell that into which I had put my heart and soul. This is not a nation of the dead but a nation of the living, and the best monument is that carried in people's hearts, and memories and the legends they tell to their children, not in monuments that in a decade or two become nothing more than pit stops and federal visitor's centers.
If it needs a monument, let us put up a monument with the landowner's permission as independent citizens and not petition the government to do so in our stead.
The owner of the land, a coal company has offered to donate the land.