Thanks. Please delete the present message unless you plan to submit 
comments to officials, as my original message requested.

It turns out that the first e-address that I cited when I wrote on 
Sunday afternoon, [log in to unmask] in Richmond, is now 
sending bounce-backs. The other main address, [log in to unmask] at the 
National Park Service, is still valid and important. Sorry for the hassle.

It appears that Ms. Suit, who directly represents the governor 
concerning Fort Monroe, and who chairs the Fort Monroe Authority, 
plugged an auto-response into her e-mail account just on Sunday 
afternoon. I've corresponded with her often in the past, and in fact 
have sent her several things in recent days. But the bounce-back message 
began appearing after Sunday's mailing effort had progressed a certain 
distance. Maybe Ms. Suit doesn't want to hear from people. In fairness, 
she likely gets way too much e-mail anyway.

The official request for comments comes only from the National Park 
Service, but that's part of the whole ruse of portraying the NPS as the 
deciders. They are not. Congress is, which means Virginians must decide 
to push our own congressional delegation. Given the enormous power of 
the governor in all of that, and in the Fort Monroe Authority, I 
included Ms. Suit's e-address.

Mayor Molly Ward of Hampton is a good stand-in: [log in to unmask] My 
sense is that Virginia's Democratic senators follow Mayor Ward's lead on 
Fort Monroe completely, under the preposterous but strong notion that a 
national treasure can belong to a single city. (That's just one of the 
fundamental framing notions that our leaders have successfully evaded 
actually discussing for six years now.) Mayor Ward also works closely on 
Fort Monroe with Ms. Suit, the governor and the Republicans.

Steve Corneliussen

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