Jake Lamkins responds to Northwest Arkansas Times editorial on Fayetteville National Cemetery and the Washington County Livestock Auction property

Re your editorial today, Dec 19, about the Bartholomew family:

Last Tuesday, Dec. 15, your reporter wrote an article about this subject.
I emailed him the following:

"To Skip Descant,
Just read your article in today's TIMES about the Bartholomew property.
You wrote:
"Although the Regional National Cemetery Improvement Corp. that formally oversees operation of the cemetery
has said it wants to expand in another direction, Buckner said Monday he still wants to see the Bartholomews’
property used to expand the cemetery."

That is in error. The RNCIC does not have anything to do with the operation of the national cemetery. Gloria Bailey and her great staff operate the cemetery as part of the U. S. Department of Veteran's Affairs.
The RNCIC has chosen to concentrate on buying lots on Government Avenue and Hill Street to donate to the cemetery because they are the only properties we have been able to afford.
We presently need about $50,000 to buy another lot on Hill Street and we are having a hard time raising it.
So, the $millions needed for the Bartholomew property are far beyond our reach.
Please visit our website at http://RNCIC.com for more information about us."

He replied:
"Thanks Jake.
Thanks for clearing this up. And I'm sorry for the oversight. I'll be sure to put in a correction.
Thanks again for writing.
Skip Descant"

I thought the subject was closed but now you repeat the SAME ERROR in your editorial today and pile even more malarkey on the subject.

I will not go into the rest of the editorial's misperceptions, errors, slanting of the news and critique of the democratic process of having open hearings with citizen input.

I will be happy if you will just tell your readers that the RNCIC DOES NOT RUN THE NATIONAL CEMETERY.
The truth is we are a little organization that has been buying small parcels of lands for 25 years and giving them to the national cemetery.
The only reason the national cemetery is not full and closed to burials is because of the RNCIC.

Sincerely,
Jake Lamkins
http:RNCIC.com