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Posted By: William Heitman

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Please don't misunderstand my lamenting. The Net54 dinner is one of the reasons I want to go to the National. The National envisioned in the '70's was supposed to be about exchanging information and promotion of the HOBBY. Last year's National floor looked very different and was dominated by noncollectors. I have a question: What makes the National a "National" anymore? Who decides where it is held? When it is held? Do the collectors have a voice in this anymore? A truly National Convention should be controlled by the people who make up a National body of some sort and not by people who have merely been able to Trademark the name. I enjoyed last year's dinner and truly loved meeting so many collectors and seeing old friends. But I missed the seminars, the hospitality suites, the auctions and any truly exciting promotion of the hobby. Seeing the Gretzky/McNall Wagner for the I don't know how manyth time is hardly exciting. Still trimmed. Have a really great show and I do hope to be there next year.