An email sent to me from Evelyn Wray's Son

"So the City of Arlington isn’t satisfied with simply forcing some of its most long-term and loyal citizens to relocate in order to make way for a new football stadium. Now the City of Arlington has taken up the practice of selling bags of dirt from the construction site for $1.00 each. This means that land that once bore the feet of children at play, land that each spring gave birth to the brilliant colors of hundreds of bluebonnets and Indian paint brushes, land on which people for decades lived and worked and dreamed and fought and wept and laughed, land that heard the sweet sound of songbirds, land that felt the rumble of lawnmowers and the brush of garden rakes, land that witnessed the thrill of first loves and knew the step of first-time parents carrying home their tiny bundles and supported the last steps on this earth of countless men, women, and children – this land that was HOME for so many for so long has been reduced to a souvenir. Hey, Arlington, the kind of city you are has already been established. Now we’re just watching to see exactly what you are willing to do for the money."