I have been doing a slow burn on all this but have chosen not to fully express my harsher opinions until we hear more information.  Sherry, am I correct in assuming that you will post the relevant portions of the LETTER when it comes?
    As several others have posted, when dealing with the government one plays strictly by government rules.  Anyone who thinks otherwise is too inexperinced to have a position of responsibility.  If the HPOCA board thought that the HPOCA was going to be in charge of that restoration other than paying for it, if they thought that just anybody was going to load and haul No3, if they thought that volunteers were going to work on No3, then they have not worked with the government before.  Come on people this was not 1000 bushels of corn being hauled.  It was not the neighbors yard tractor that was being worked on.  This was not the annual church work day.
   I would have loved to work on No3 myself but thank heaven the Smithsonian would not let me.  That is not a slap at you guys who are better mechanics than me, but to the point of this is a special national heirloom machine that but a few have the experience and facilities to work on.
   It has also occurred to me that the membership could choose to make the upcoming election for VP a referendum on the Board.  Either way that would be the clearest of messages.
   Its time that the facts come out!!