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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b>John<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Not sure what brought this up as it was an email I posted back in June when everything about the Nats was up in the air. But your recollection is from the 90s (best I remember) when AMA ran the Nats and provided manpower. Has not been that way for many years now. Not to mention completed different circumstances..<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>> on behalf of John Ferrell via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 1, 2020 1:16:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a> <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Nats or lack there of</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>This is not the first time that the AMA Leadership decided we were not worth the trouble. It will likely require some one like Mike Dunphy or Ron Van Putte to step up to the plate and get the ball rolling. AMA sent all of the volunteers home at Lawerceville. My skills were that my wife and I showed up as spectators but were immediately assigned to operations. Ron commented "now there are five of us." Fortunately the headcount was down a little so we we learned as we went. Who wins or loses is of no consequences, Holding the Nats is necessarily for the records. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>It does not require a lot of airplanes, It was not uncommon for several pilots to fly the same plane. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>If no one wants to put forth the effort for those who have worked so hard in the past it is your choice. </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>On 6/30/2020 7:55 PM, John Fuqua via NSRCA-discussion wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Hey NSRCA BOD. I am assuming that any Nats like event a Muncie will not happen but it would be nice if someone in charge actually said so. So Please let us mere mortals know what is going on - or not as the case may be.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></p><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>_______________________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>NSRCA-discussion mailing list</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a></span><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>John Ferrell W8CCW</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> Julian NC 27283</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> It is better to walk alone,</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>than with a crowd going the wrong direction.</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='background:white'><span style='color:black'> --Diane Grant</span><o:p></o:p></pre></div></div></body></html>