They can’t charge money…the curator, John I think his name is was explaining to me the funding…there are only 3 volunteers who work on restoring the vehicles.
Their budget is part of the Army’s budget. They were supposed to get funding in the early 2000’s…but the money went to the big VA hospitals to bring them up to standard… You may remember the stories about Walter Reed hospital and how bad it was… The wounded troops were coming back from afghanistan and Iraq and needed updated and better care.
They took the money allocated to the future museum and gave it to the hospitals…rightly so I think.
They really had to fight to get the space that they have now.
You can imagine that in the Army budget…a museum is low on the priority of things.
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