Plans still in place to close Knightstown childrena s home

To:
The Hon. Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., Governor of the State of Indiana, Indiana House Leader Rep. Patrick Bauer, Indiana Senate Leader Sen. David Long, all other Representatives and Senators of the Indiana General Assembly, and all concerned and interested Citizens of The State of Indiana.

Thank you in advance for your consideration of the following:

LEGACY
If it becomes the irrevocable will of the State of Indiana and its' elected Officials to cease funding and operation of the historic State Institution known as the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home, located in Rush County near the town of Knightstown, please concurrently declare the small land parcel known as The Home Camp property, located in far-eastern Hancock County - detached, and some distance from the Home proper - to be surplus State-owned property, and deed said property and improvements to the Home's Alumni Association for the sum of $1.00, so that the Alumni Association and its' many members may continue to perpetuate the noble and still-valid principles and ideals both the Children's Home and its' Alumni Association were founded on. By taking possession of, possibly, the last vestige of the beloved Home of their youth, the Home Alumni will also continue to have, without infringement on the Main Home Campus, a familiar and inviting place at which to conduct regular Alumni Meetings, annual Homecoming Events, and other suitable activities and traditions that are consistent with, and beneficial to, the stated purpose of the Home's Alumni Association and its' many supporters - now, and for the foreseeable future.

Proposed addendum to Home Camp Petition:

If The State of Indiana will save $10 Million per year (their figures) by closing the Home, but destroy the normal and logical congregation site for Alumni and Legion activities in the process, then the Home Camp Petition is a more than reasonable request, and deserves maximum support from all sides. Further, if this parcel of land were to be deeded jointly to The Home Alumni Association and the American Legion, Department of Indiana, it would go a long way to assuage the hurt feelings of all those involved in the vitriolic Home-closing dispute. If we do, in fact, lose access to the actual "brick and mortor" we all love and feel a need to gravitate to periodically - at least the principles on which the Home was established will come away still-valid and untarnished by this whole sordid affair.
Regards, Charles '50

All comments and/or suggestions welcome!